Funeral in Berlin

Funeral in Berlin
Author: Len Deighton
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 47
Release: 1978
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0586045805

A ferociously cool Cold War thriller from the author of The Ipcress File. Len Deighton's third novel has become a classic, as compelling and suspenseful now as when it first exploded on to the bestseller lists. In Berlin, where neither side of the wall is safe, Colonel Stok of Red Army Security is prepared to sell an important Russian scientist to the West - for a price. British intelligence are willing to pay, providing their own top secret agent is in Berlin to act as go-between. But it soon becomes apparent that behind the facade of an elaborate mock funeral lies a game of deadly manoeuvres and ruthless tactics. A game in which the blood-stained legacy of Nazi Germany is enmeshed in the intricate moves of cold war espionage...

Funeral in Berlin

Funeral in Berlin
Author: Len Deighton
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007343000

A ferociously cool Cold War thriller from the author of The Ipcress File.

Horse Under Water

Horse Under Water
Author: Len Deighton
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 014199598X

'The poet of the spy story' Sunday Times A sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War - until now. Inside its rusting hull, among the corpses of top-rank Nazis, lie secrets people will kill to obtain. The sequel to Len Deighton's game-changing debut The IPCRESS File, Horse Under Water sees its nameless, laconic narrator sent from fogbound London to the Algarve, where he must dive through layers of deceit in a place rotten with betrayals.

Funeral in Berlin

Funeral in Berlin
Author: Len Deighton
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802161103

"In 1963, Berlin is dark and dangerous. Len Deighton's skilled, jaded, anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File is now set to arrange the defection-and fake the death-of a leading Soviet scientist. "A ferociously cool fable" (New York Times) and one of the first novels written after the construction of the Berlin Wall, Funeral in Berlin revels in the fraught, chilling atmosphere of a divided city"--

Billion-Dollar Brain

Billion-Dollar Brain
Author: Len Deighton
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007342993

The classic spy thriller of lethal computer-age intrigue and a maniac’s private cold war, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of The IPCRESS File.

The Ipcress File

The Ipcress File
Author: Len Deighton
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2023-06-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802161642

A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton’s iconic unnamed protagonist—later christened Harry Palmer—to find out why. His search begins in a grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he ends up amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton’s sensational debut and first bestseller The IPCRESS File broke the mold of thriller writing and became the defining novel of 1960s London.

Berlin Game

Berlin Game
Author: Len Deighton
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-05-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0241505151

'Masterly ... dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times 'Deighton's best novel to date - sharp, witty and sour, like Raymond Chandler adapted to British gloom and the multiple betrayals of the spy' Observer Embattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues - including his own wife Fiona - rise up the ranks of MI6. When a valued agent in East Berlin warns the British of a mole at the heart of the Service, Samson must return to the field and the city he loves to uncover the traitor's identity. This is the first novel in Len Deighton's acclaimed, Game, Set and Match trilogy. A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL

Underground in Berlin

Underground in Berlin
Author: Marie Jalowicz Simon
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2015-09-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0316382116

A thrilling piece of undiscovered history, this is the true account of a young Jewish woman who survived World War II in Berlin. In 1942, Marie Jalowicz, a twenty-year-old Jewish Berliner, made the extraordinary decision to do everything in her power to avoid the concentration camps. She removed her yellow star, took on an assumed identity, and disappeared into the city. In the years that followed, Marie took shelter wherever it was offered, living with the strangest of bedfellows, from circus performers and committed communists to convinced Nazis. As Marie quickly learned, however, compassion and cruelty are very often two sides of the same coin. Fifty years later, Marie agreed to tell her story for the first time. Told in her own voice with unflinching honesty, Underground in Berlin is a book like no other, of the surreal, sometimes absurd day-to-day life in wartime Berlin. This might be just one woman's story, but it gives an unparalleled glimpse into what it truly means to be human.

Spy Story

Spy Story
Author: Len Deighton
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2012-06-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0007458401

Computer games run in a classified war studies centre in London. Nuclear submarines prowl beneath Arctic ice. And war games go into real time. Patrick Armstrong - possibly the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File - is sent to investigate.

Funeral for a Dog: A Novel

Funeral for a Dog: A Novel
Author: Thomas Pletzinger
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-03-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 039308034X

“The kind of writing that makes us want to read the whole book as soon as possible; a shot of adrenaline that immediately takes us to a new world.”—David Varno, Words Without Borders Journalist Daniel Mandelkern leaves Hamburg on assignment to interview Dirk Svensson, a reclusive children's book author who lives alone on the Italian side of Lake Lugano with his three-legged dog. Mandelkern has been quarreling with his wife (who is also his editor); he suspects she has other reasons for sending him away.After stumbling on a manuscript of Svensson's about a complicated ménage à trois, Mandelkern is plunged into mysteries past and present. Rich with anthropological and literary allusion, this prize-winning debut set in Europe, Brazil, and New York, tells the parallel stories of two writers struggling with the burden of the past and the uncertainties of the future. Funeral for a Dog won the prestigious Uwe-Johnson Prize, and critics raved: "Pletzinger's debut is a real smash hit. It's been a long time since a young German writer has thrown himself into the hurly-burly of life and literature with so much intelligence and bravado" (Wolfgang Hobel, Der Spiegel).