A review by muninnherself
Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton

4.0

I bought this in a charity shop because I'd never read anything by Deighton. It's much as one might expect, that particular kind of sharp precise detail you get in spy stories, especially those written before 1965. It's an almost unrecognisable world of course, not just the Cold War Berlin, but smoggy cold London and everyone smoking constantly and everything coldly modern in a way that's impossibly distant.