A review by harry_reads4fun
Naspel in Londen by Len Deighton

4.0

This trilogy (Berlin Game, Mexico Set and London Match) comes very close to touching the Holy Trinity of spy literature: John Le Carre's Karla Trilogy. But it's difficult to say exactly why that's the case. In both, the middle installment I thought was, by far, the weakest part. Perhaps Smiley's Game was a stronger finish? Apart from edge-of-your seat human and spy drama there is a cloud of weariness in JLC's trilogy: spies are confronted with the futility of their life's work and doubt is cast upon the battle of ideologies which sustains it. Maybe that layer is absent here?
Regardless, Bernard Samson is one on my favorite all-time characters - witty, sarcastic and self-deprecating. And the betrayal in Berlin Game is a great twist, which sets up the next two books.