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Spy story

On his way home, the unsuspecting ex-spy's car breaks down close to his old flat, and he breaks in to telephone for help. He is shocked to discover himself duplicated there: the same clothes, china, record collection and, spookiest of all, even the same photographs. Very much against his will, Deighton's hero is propelled into a brutal, devious conspiracy of East/West power politics. Soon embedded in its coils are the Red Admiral commanding Soviet antisubmarine warfare, a wealthy English eccentric, and a drunken member of Parliament who may be working for the British Secret Service.

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  • "On his way home, the unsuspecting ex-spy's car breaks down close to his old flat, and he breaks in to telephone for help. He is shocked to discover himself duplicated there: the same clothes, china, record collection and, spookiest of all, even the same photographs. Very much against his will, Deighton's hero is propelled into a brutal, devious conspiracy of East/West power politics. Soon embedded in its coils are the Red Admiral commanding Soviet antisubmarine warfare, a wealthy English eccentric, and a drunken member of Parliament who may be working for the British Secret Service."@en
  • "He is back after five long years' absence, the insubordinate, decent, bespectacled English spy who fought, fumbled, outwitted, and survived his outrageous way through the best-selling Horse Under Water, Funeral in Berlin, and the rest of those marvelous, celebrated Len Deighton spy thrillers. Once again he finds himself a reluctant inhabitant of that nightmare world of espionage where a triple cross is as commonplace and regular as the daily paper at the breakfast table. Cocky, sardonic Charles Schlegel the third, Colonel U.S. Marine Corps Air Wing (retired), with the iron handshake and a flat refusal to let anything stand in his way, is brought in to run London's Strategic War Game Studies Centre. Under a joint Anglo-American naval warfare committee, military computers match NATO defense strategies against theoretical Russian strike threats. Schlegel appoints Deighton's spy hero his personal assistant. A U.S. nuclear submarine returns from a forty-three day cruise deep under the Arctic ice pack to eavesdrop on the Soviet Undersea Warfare Command at Archangel, and the first sign of trouble occurs after disembarkation at the remote deep-water anchorage in western Scotland. On his way home, the unsuspecting ex-spy's car breaks down conveniently close to his old flat, where he breaks in to telephone for help."@en
  • "War games and super secrets involve the transferral of a defecting Russian admiral to Britain under the command of a tough-sounding retired American marine corps commander. Submarine espionage under the Arctic and a bittersweet love affair add to the suspense."@en
  • "On his way home, the unsuspecting ex-spy's car breaks down close to his old flat, and he breaks in to telephone for help. He is shocked to discover himself duplicated there: the same clothes, china, record collection and, spookiest of all, even the same photographs. Very much against his will, Deighton's hero is propelled into a brutal, devious conspiracy of East/West power politics. Soon embedded in its coils are the Red Admiral commanding Soviet antisubmarine warfare, a wealthy English eccentric, and a drunken member of Parliament who may be working for the British Secret Service. "Spy story" is vintage Len Deighton, a plot with stunning counterfeits and unfailing suspense right to its final devastating nightmarish climax."@en

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  • "Spy stories"@en
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