Berlin Game

Deighton's best novel to date - sharp, witty and sour, like Raymond Chandler adapted to British gloom and the multiple betrayals of the private spy.

Observer

Sheer consistent rightness page after page after page.

The Times

Virtuoso top level performance.

The Guardian

Spying at its most captivating and intricate.

Marcel Berlins, The Times

A labyrinthine espionage epic lightened with laconic wit.

Jeremy Duns, The Times

Deighton, as always, makes the familiar twists and turns of spy errantry new again, partly by his grip of narrative, partly by his grasp of character, and partly by his easy, sardonic tone.

New Yorker

Len Deighton's spy novels are so good they make me sad the Cold War is over.

Malcolm Gladwell

The Berlin Game trilogy made lockdown possible.

Olivia Laing

Deighton's outstanding achievement is the nine-volume series chronicling the life and times of Bernard Samson ... Deighton's Samson trilogies are as much about the elusiveness of human interactions as espionage. Spying is not a secret world sealed off from ordinary life but an extension of the world we all live in.

John Gray, New Statesman