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Spy Sinker is a 1990 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the final novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
- 1990 (UK)
- Spy novel
1 gen 2001 · Len Deighton. 4.11. 3,395 ratings129 reviews. The hero of Spy Hook and Spy Line returns for a final bow in Len Deighton's thrilling novel, Spy Sinker. British agent Bernard Samson's family and career are about to be betrayed and crushed by his wife - lovely, brilliant Fiona Samson.
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28 nov 2019 · Language. English. 387 pages : 23 cm. Spanning a ten year period (1977-87), Deighton solves the mystery of Fiona's defection - was she a Soviet spy or wasn't she?
Spy Sinker is the sixth novel in the Bernard Samson series, not counting the historical prequel Winter. As Len Deighton explained, it is the only book of the three trilogies not told from Bernard's point of view: 'Using third-person narrative, Spy Sinker starts in September 1977.
12 mag 2021 · In Spy Sinker, the final book in the second trilogy, the story is retold in a third-person narrative that allows the reader to know what Samson could not. Javier Marías’s plotless, Oxford-based espionage trilogy Your Face Tomorrow (2002-07), though featuring an actual historical figure, suggests that all our narratives are fictional.
The enormous success of his first spy novel, The IPCRESS File (1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following decades. These varied from historical fiction ( Bomber , perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction ( SS-GB ) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War ( Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly ).
Hook, Line, and Sinker. by Len Deighton. 4.32 · 171 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1992 · 4 editions. SPY HOOK. When word gets to London Central that a ca…. Want to Read. Rate it: The trilogy of trilogies detailing the life and career of spy Bernard Samson. Also included is the novel Winter, which, although not a primary part of ...
