Berlin Game

Berlin Game
Len Deighton

Long-awaited reissue of the first part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.East is East and West is West - and they meet in Berlin…He was the best source the Department ever had, but now he desperately wanted to come over the Wall. ‘Brahms Four’ was certain a high-ranking mole was set to betray him. There was only one Englishman he trusted any more: someone from the old days.So they decided to put Bernard Samson back into the field after five sedentary years of flying a desk.The field is Berlin.The game is as baffling, treacherous and lethal as ever…

Cover designer’s note (#uf00f2f55-dd1c-5ede-8559-66e00437e784)

In November 1989, my wife Isolde and I had the pleasure of being in the German capital at the fall of the Berlin Wall, where I photographed many images of young and old citizens chipping away at the Wall. Along with these I photographed a number of versions of ‘Berlin’ that had been spray-painted on the wall’s surface, as well as the signboard at ‘Checkpoint Charlie’.

There can have been no more potent symbol of division, or barrier, than the Berlin Wall and it would always be a perfect visual representation of the city of Berlin, where so much of this story takes place.

As Len Deighton’s protagonist, Bernard Samson, penetrates beyond the Wall into the Eastern sector I thought I would cut a door into the Wall to symbolize his furtive activities.

At the heart of every one of the nine books in this triple trilogy is Bernard Samson, so I wanted to come up with a neat way of visually linking them all. When the reader has collected all nine books and displays them together in sequential order, the books’ spines will spell out Samson’s name in the form of a blackmail note made up of airline baggage tags. The tags were drawn from my personal collection, and are colourful testimony to thousands of air miles spent travelling the world.

Arnold Schwartzman OBE RDI

LEN DEIGHTON

Berlin Game

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First published in Great Britain by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd 1983

Copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 1983

Introduction copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 2010

Cover designer’s note © Arnold Schwartzman 2010

Cover design and photography © Arnold Schwartzman 2010

Len Deighton asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Source ISBN: 9780008124984

Ebook Edition © March 2015 ISBN: 9780007387182

Version: 2018-05-08

Contents

Cover (#uc83a2387-e544-5275-afed-b8a73592039d)

Cover Designer’s Note (#uabfdfe30-3632-5d69-b8af-34a52b28783b)

Title Page (#u21a61abb-1eb2-5bbe-ad0a-2f22a69071ff)

Copyright (#u6e3342bd-0d58-5e31-b6a2-d3891207ea51)

Introduction (#u7f54af06-ae31-516c-9e25-9e770a4f061c)

Chapter 1 (#uf7ae034b-22a8-55ed-9f7a-3aff82874f41)

Chapter 2 (#u6b7507a0-6eab-5089-9416-d8210c906d23)

Chapter 3 (#u300c536a-d779-5e70-abef-55ea9c611f99)

Chapter 4 (#u018724c6-aefb-5a00-b2b8-4a8df4cbe5ac)

Chapter 5 (#u107314ab-141b-5ba3-b07b-3b1fc86c6c7c)

Chapter 6 (#u0758aa5d-f3f3-5900-a383-e679ad890109)

Chapter 7 (#u4be4b180-15b4-5579-bbc3-dde3d43e2dbc)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)