Mexico Set

Mexico Set
Len Deighton
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Paperback
h197 x 129mm - 384pg
27 May 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780241505458
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The second novel in the Game, Set and Match trilogy is a gripping study in the art of spy enrolmentWorld-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico to aid the defection of a KGB agent to the West, he has a chance to prove his worth. Instead he is torn between conflicting loyalties, and lost in a maze of double-dealing and duplicity. The second novel in the Game, Set and Match trilogy is a gripping portrayal of a man who can trust no one, not even those closest to him.
Deighton is back in his original milieu, the bleak spy world of betrayers and betrayed. * Observer * Deighton' s outstanding achievementis 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 * Deighton is a marvel . . . few authors writing in the rigorous and finite genre of spy fiction have mastered the craft as well as Deighton . . . Mexico Set is a pure tale, told by an author at the height of his power. * Chicago Tribune * For sheer readability he has no peer. * Evening Standard * Like lying back in a hot bath with a large malt whisky - absolute bliss. * Sunday Telegraph * Len Deighton' s spy novels are so good they make me sad the Cold War is over. -- Len Deighton
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: 9780241505458
Published: 27 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 197mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 279g
Pages: 384

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