Len Deighton

A secret agent is charged with finding and returning a missing biochemist, but what begins as a straight-forward case quickly becomes a deadly conspiracy.

While Bert Cutler, Glasgow police inspector, escorts Jimmy Ross to Cairo to stand trial for killing an officer, he dies, and Ross assumes his identity so that in Cairo, Ross finds himself trying to apprehend the spy helping Rommell in Africa.

With the rare hand of a master, Deighton vividly paints the shadowy world of spies, agents and double agents pitted in a war in which physical violence is only the beginning ... The Berlin Wall is about to crumple, and cold war loyalties are shifting with the wind. Bernard Samson, survivor and spy extraordinaire, is forced back into the "game" ... this time without the moral sureness that evil lies exclusively on the other side of the Iron Curtain....

A group of Marxist revolutionaries try to take over a South American country led by a drug industry.

Bernard Samson must help an undercover agent escape from Berlin but fears that leaks in British intelligence will undermine the attempt. Brahms Four wants out. This alarming signal means that one of Britain's most reliable, most valuable agents behind the Iron Curtain is urgently demanding safe passage to the West. It sends a ripple of panic through the highest levels of the British secret service. Appropriately, it has fallen to Bernard Samson,...