Bøger i Bernard Samson serien

Bernard Samson har et hjem og en familie, kone og barn - og et problem. For hans kone, Fiona, har forladt både hjem og familie og er draget om bag det berygtede - og frygtede - Jerntæppe for at arbejde for KGB. Men det er ikke af egoistiske årsager, at Fiona har forladt hele sit liv derhjemme. Hun er yderst charmerende og ganske velbegavet - og ikke det mindste i tvivl om, hvad hun gør, og hvorfor hun gør det.Serien om efterretningsagenten Bernard Samson foregår i et uropræget politisk miljø årtier efter anden verdenskrig, hvor konflikterne mellem øst og vest stadig ulmer, og forholdet mellem de to politistiske stormagter konstant bliver sat på prøve.Len Deighton (f. 1929) er en britisk forfatter, der især er kendt for sine spionromaner. Han bliver sædvanligvis anset som en af sin tids tre bedste spionromanforfattere (iblandt forfatterne Ian Fleming og John le Carré). Deighton fik sin litterære romandebut med værket "Lynaktion Ipcress" i 1962, og romanen blev senere filmatiseret. Udover sin forfattergerning er Deighton en anerkendt militærhistoriker, kogebogsforfatter og illustrator.

"When disaffected KGB major Erich Stinnes is spotted in Mexico City, it was obvious that Bernard Samson is the right man to "enrol" him. With his domestic life a shamble and his career heading towards disaster, Bernard needed to prove his reliability. And he knew Stinnes already: Bernard had been interrogated by him in East Berlin. But Bernard risks being entangled in a lethal web of old loyalties and old betrayals. All he knows for sure is that he has to get Stinnes for London. Who's pulling the strings is another matter"--

"The spy who's in the clear doesn't exist. Bernard Samson hoped they'd put British KGB agent Elvira Miller behind bars. She'd made a sweeping confession, but there was one troubling thing about it: Two codewords where there should have been one. The finger of suspicion pointed straight back to London. And that was where defector Erich Stinnes was locked up, refusing to talk"--

"Berlin Game begins with a plea from a British agent stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and return home to the West. Bernard Samson, the former field agent now stationed behind a London desk, is tasked with the rescue. But before he even sets out on the mission, suspicions arise that there is a traitor among his colleagues in the KGB, likely one of his closest colleagues. The first in Deighton's acclaimed Game, Set, Match trilogy starring the talented-yet-jaded intelligence officer Bernard Samson, Berlin Game is a riveting story of betrayal and suspicion in the Second World War"--