Funeral in Berlin

Funeral in Berlin
Len Deighton
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 336pg
29 Apr 2021 UK
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9780241505380
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One of the first novels to be written after the Berlin Wall was built, Funeral in Berlin revels in the macabre, sleazy and frightening atmosphere of the city. The anonymous agent from the British intelligence office known as (WOOOC)P tells the story of a top Soviet scientist wanting to defect to the West. Aided and abetted by a variety of shady grotesques of the kind which Deighton so excels at, the narrator is rapidly lost in a maze of double-dealing, as he criss-crosses Europe trying to find out who he can trust, with the deadline for the scientist' s dramatic escape (hidden in an elaborate coffin) gets ever nearer.
A ferociously cool fable. * New York Times * A most impressive book in which the tension, more like a chronic ache than a sharp stab of pain, never lets go. * Evening Standard * Like lying back in a hot bath with a large malt whisky - absolute bliss. * Sunday Telegraph * Len Deighton is the Flaubert of the contemporary thriller writers. -- Michael Howard * Times Literary Supplement * The self-conscious cool of Deighton' s writing has dated in the best way possible . . . Stone-cold Cold War classic. -- Toby Litt * The Guardian *
Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London. He did his national service in the RAF, went to the Royal College of Art and designed many book jackets, including the original UK edition of Jack Kerouac' s On the Road. The enormous success of his first spy novel, The IPCRESS File (1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following decades. These varied from historical fiction (Bomber, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction (SS-GB) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War (Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly). His spy novels chart the twists and turns of Britain and the Cold War in ways which now give them a unique flavour. They preserve a world in which Europe contains many dictatorships, in which the personal can be ruined by the ideological and where the horrors of the Second World War are buried under only a very thin layer of soil. Deighton' s fascination with technology, his sense of humour and his brilliant evocation of time and place make him one of the key British espionage writers, alongside John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780241505380
Published: 29 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 35mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 336

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