Spy Sinker
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Found on EW dot com -Entertainment Weekley
Of all the novelists in the espionage industry, Len Deighton seems best suited to survive the demise of the Cold War. After all, his enjoyable SS-GB was based on the premise that England had lost World War II, and he has always been a lot more interested in the fecklessness of the British ruling class than in the evils of communism.
Even so, the collapse of the Berlin Wall left Deighton in a bad spot: two thirds of the way through his second trilogy about the tangled affairs of Bernard Samson, the rumpled curmudgeon of London Central, and his treasonous wife, Fiona. When last seen Fiona had apparently exchanged her position as upper-class bitch of the Western World for an equally prestigious job with the KGB in East Berlin. But never fear, in Spy Sinker it turns out that, unknown even to her husband, Fiona has been a double agent all along. That wasn't a love affair she'd been having with the American Anglophile Bret Rensselaer, as Bernard had suspected. The pompous, though undeniably clever little twit has in fact been Fiona's British intelligence ''control.''
As Deighton insists in a preface, familiarity with the preceding five novels is hardly necessary to see that this revelation — which incidentally comes in Spy Sinker's opening pages — requires looking at things a bit differently. But only readers who know at least Spy Hook and Spy Line will be able to recognize the fiendishly clever way Deighton has been setting things up all along, and they will be eepecially amused to see his vivid fictional world turned playfully upside down.
Of all the novelists in the espionage industry, Len Deighton seems best suited to survive the demise of the Cold War. After all, his enjoyable SS-GB was based on the premise that England had lost World War II, and he has always been a lot more interested in the fecklessness of the British ruling class than in the evils of communism.
Even so, the collapse of the Berlin Wall left Deighton in a bad spot: two thirds of the way through his second trilogy about the tangled affairs of Bernard Samson, the rumpled curmudgeon of London Central, and his treasonous wife, Fiona. When last seen Fiona had apparently exchanged her position as upper-class bitch of the Western World for an equally prestigious job with the KGB in East Berlin. But never fear, in Spy Sinker it turns out that, unknown even to her husband, Fiona has been a double agent all along. That wasn't a love affair she'd been having with the American Anglophile Bret Rensselaer, as Bernard had suspected. The pompous, though undeniably clever little twit has in fact been Fiona's British intelligence ''control.''
As Deighton insists in a preface, familiarity with the preceding five novels is hardly necessary to see that this revelation — which incidentally comes in Spy Sinker's opening pages — requires looking at things a bit differently. But only readers who know at least Spy Hook and Spy Line will be able to recognize the fiendishly clever way Deighton has been setting things up all along, and they will be eepecially amused to see his vivid fictional world turned playfully upside down.
Holding for box.
This goes in the British mystery box.
Spies and espionage thrillers never really appealed to me.
This book enjoyed a brief stay in San Jose, California before continuing its travels with the British Mystery Bookbox!
This book enjoyed a brief stay in San Jose, California before continuing its travels with the British Mystery Bookbox!
There were some books on the shelf that were screaming for a trip - anywhere. So it goes in a BOB.
Got in a box of books from Nuttyreader! :D This book is going to be wild released soon! I'm so excited to have a chance to wild release some books. :) (Or might give it to my boyfriend... he loves thrillers!)
Book was bought at a giganic yard sale at Evangel University in Springfirld
Missouri. I will read the book and drop it off somewhere so it can continue
its journry.
CAUGHT IN SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI USA
Missouri. I will read the book and drop it off somewhere so it can continue
its journry.
CAUGHT IN SPRINGFIELD MISSOURI USA
Book arrived in my bookstore as a trade-in. I haven't read Deighton in years but will read this and then release.
