Spy Sinker

Spy Sinker is the crescendo climax of the six previous best-selling novels by Len Deighton – and it ties them all together. Why, really, did Bernard Samson's wife, Fiona, disappear into East Berlin, leaving him with two young children and a wrecked career as a spy? How did it happen?This, at last, is Fiona's story. We see how she was recruited by the KGB as a young Oxford student. But we also see her rise through the hierarchy of the British intelligence system until she is their superspy for East Germany. Her mission: the shady, dangerous dealings that will help bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989.Beautiful, brilliant Fiona is thus caught in the double world of to espionage systems. But there is still another split: her love for her husband and children, and the growing realization that it is only through treachery and deceit of the ones she loves most that Fiona can serve her country. And then there is this charming American who loves her. . .Flashes of violence and terror interweave with biting humor and an exquisite understanding of the human foibles that pack family life and political life. From England's grand and not-so-grand houses to the gray streets of Berlin, a vibrant sensitivity illumines men and women involved with treachery, passion, power, doubledealing, revenge, and even love. A masterpiece of plot.The millions of readers caught up by Spy Hawk and Spy Line will want to know what really happened, and why and how. New readers will be carried by the tremendous excitement of this latest Len Deighton novel.