| SPY SINKER is the crescendo climax of the six previous bestselling novels by Len Deighton --and it ties them all together. Why, really, did Bernard Samson s wife, Fiona, disappear into East Berlin, leaving him with two young children and a wrecked career as a spy? How did it happen? This, at last, is Fiona s story. We see how she was recruited by the KGB as a young Oxford student. But we also see her rise through the hierarchy of the British intelli- gence system until she is their superspy for East Germany. Her mission: the shady, dan- gerous dealings that will help bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989. Beautiful, brilliant Fiona is thus caught in the double world of two espionage systems. But there is still another split: her love for her husband and children, and tile growing real- ization that it is only through treachery and deceit to the ones she loves most that Fiona can serve her country. And then there is tiffs charming American who loves her Flashes of violence and terror interweave with biting humor and an exquisite under- standing of the human foibles that pack fam- ily life and political life. From England s grand and not-so-grand houses to the gray streets of Berlin, a vibrant sensitivity illu- mines men and women involved with treach- ery, passion, power, double-dealing, revenge, and even love. A masterpiece of plot. The millions of readers caught up by Spy Hook and Spy Line will want to know what really happened, and why and how. New readers will be carried by the tremendous excitement of tiffs latest Len Deighton novel. |
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