Faith by Len Deighton Paperback Book 9780241505366

A BERNARD SAMSON NOVELThe plotting is masterly the atmospheric descriptions superb absolute bliss Sunday TelegraphSummer 1987 the final years of the Cold War Bernard Samson has been sent to East Germany to make contact with a KGB defector codename VERDI who claims to have access to top intelligence secrets But something goes wrong and Bernard must struggle to stay in the game Fighting to keep his job and rebuild his shattered marriage kept in the dark by London Central he has no one he can trust and nothing to depend on but his own faith This is the first part of the Faith Hope and Charity trilogyA string of brilliantly mounted setpieces superbly laconic wisecracks The Times