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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
Good cold-war thriller, plenty to keep you guessing.
Bogs down a bit in the middle but picks up again towards the end.
Bogs down a bit in the middle but picks up again towards the end.
I didn't realise Funeral in Berlin (which I read a couple of years ago) is a sort of sequel to this. The narrator is Harry Palmer but he's never named. And I can't remember if I've seen the film - surely I must have done. Surely. The plot didn't ring any bells though.
Anyway it's a complicated Cold War spy story obviously. The style is staccato and in places elliptical, so I wasn't always sure what was going on, I assume this is deliberate. It's good though, tense and page-turning and all that. My favourite thing about stuff like this is the peripheral detail about fags and clothes and the sort of things one might buy in a Soho deli in 1962. Also it's interesting to think of the sixties being full of people who fought in the war and then had to find something else to do that wasn't extremely dull in comparison. (I do see that lots of people would have *wanted* a job that was extremely dull.)
Anyway it's a complicated Cold War spy story obviously. The style is staccato and in places elliptical, so I wasn't always sure what was going on, I assume this is deliberate. It's good though, tense and page-turning and all that. My favourite thing about stuff like this is the peripheral detail about fags and clothes and the sort of things one might buy in a Soho deli in 1962. Also it's interesting to think of the sixties being full of people who fought in the war and then had to find something else to do that wasn't extremely dull in comparison. (I do see that lots of people would have *wanted* a job that was extremely dull.)