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Spy hook: a novel

British intelligence agent Bernard Samson meets with former colleague Jim Prettyman who denies any knowledge of the slush fund Samson has been ordered to trace. Later, Samson learns Prettyman has been killed. Some strong language.

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  • "British intelligence agent Bernard Samson meets with former colleague Jim Prettyman who denies any knowledge of the slush fund Samson has been ordered to trace. Later, Samson learns Prettyman has been killed. Some strong language."@en
  • "Old pals are not as friendly, colleagues not as confiding as they used to be. Or so it seems to Bernard Samson. It all happened since his wife defected three years ago. Ignoring all warnings, Bernard pursues his own investigations into her action."@en
  • "Bernard Samson, a cynical British Secret Service agent, has information about a huge financial scam that has erupted within the Service in this first book of a trilogy."@en
  • "Once a field agent in the dangerous byways of Eastern Europe and now relegated to an administrative backwater at London Central, Samson has become, in his own words, "the dogsbody who got the jobs that no one else wanted." But now he's got something else as well: information that he might be better off not knowing, information about a huge financial scam that has erupted within the Service."@en
  • "Bernard Samson, the quintessentially cool, cynical British Secret Service agent, is back in the splendid first book of an espionage trilogy: Hook, Line, and Sinker. And we are back in the mazes of Secret Service mystery and intrigue, mazes that now lead into Samson's own tangled past. Once a field agent in the dangerous byways of Eastern Europe and now relegated to an administrative backwater at London Central, Samson has become, in his own words, "the dogsbody who got the jobs that no one else wanted." But now he's got something else as well: information that he might be better off not knowing, information about a huge financial scam that has erupted within the Service. Millions of pounds have disappeared. And what Samson learns is so confounding that he cannot resist pursuing it far beyond the tight perimeters of the official investigation. Zigzagging across two continents, Samson begins to question the behavior of the very people he's come to depend upon, people who appear to regard his behavior as paranoid. There's no question in his mind that he has "enough work and enough enemies without looking for more" but suspects that he may be on the trail of the most damaging breach of security the Service has ever suffered. What happens is brilliantly told as the tension mounts and as Deighton, writing at the top of his form, gives us the riveting and superbly suspenseful beginning of his magnificent trilogy."@en
  • "British intelligence agent Bernard Samson meets with former colleague Jim Prettyman who denies any knowledge of the slush fund Samson has been ordered to trace. Later, Samson learns Prettyman has been killed."@en
  • "Once a field agent in the dangerous byways of Eastern Europe and now relegated to an administrative backwater at London Central, Samson has inadvertently come across some information about a huge financial scam that has erupted within the Service. Millions have disappeared, and Samson cannot resist pursuing it far beyond the tight perimeters of the official investigation. Zigzagging across two continents and drawing closer and closer to the heart of a mammoth scandal, Samson begins to question the behavior of the very people he's come to depend upon. He suspects that he may be on the trail of the most damaging breach of security the Service has ever suffered."@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Spion- og agentromaner"
  • "Spy stories"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en

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  • "Spy hook: a novel"@en
  • "Spy Hook, by Len Deighton"
  • "Spy hook"@en
  • "Spy hook"

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