“Deighton, Greene and John le Carré comprise the reigning triumvirate of fictional spymasters beside whom all others pale.”—
Seattle Times
In 1963, Berlin is dark and dangerous. Len Deighton’s skilled, jaded, anony­mous hero of
The IPCRESS File
is now set to arrange the defection—and fake the death—of a leading Soviet scien­tist. “A ferociously cool fable” (
New York Times
) and one of the first novels written after the construction of the Berlin Wall,
Funeral in Berlin
revels in the fraught, chilling atmosphere of a divided city.