Faith Author:Len Deighton Prime minister of the political thriller. Len Deighton is back in top form with the first of a new trilogy in the continuing saga of Bernard Samson, the intrepid, insolent, and enigmatic agent of Deighton's blockbuster series: the Game, Set, and Match and Hook, Line, and Sinker trilogies. — In Faith... more »> Samson is beset. After her years on the "other side," his wife, Fiona, is finally back in his life. But the cool and sophisticated Fiona can't help but know about the affair with Gloria, an attractive coworker half Bernard's age. And she's not taking it well. His children have been grabbed by his arrogant father-in-law. His boss, Dicky, warns that Bernard's job is on the line- the same line that will get Dicky a promotion.
And Bernard has other troubles, like his secret orders to leave California for the grim streets of Magdeburg, where, hours after his arrival, he finds himself in a shootout with Stasi agents on a dark country road-another airtight mission down the drain. At the time of darkest danger. Bernard needs his best friend., Werner, but Werner is exiled and in disgrace.
It's 1987, and the Cold War is turning to ice. "Ask no questions, Bernard," whisper the top brass at London Central as they struggle to avoid the fallout from the deepest scandal in the Department's history. Everyone is grabbing for that one last shred of glory. , that one last pot of gold. Nothing is as it seems. And Bernard, caught between his job, his ethics, his past, and the two women he loves, finds there is no one he can confide in, nothing to depend on.
Except faith.
LEN DEIGHTON is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction, including intensely detailed histories of World War II. But his forte is clearly the espionage thriller, as the world discovered in 1961 with the publication of The Ipcress File. Deighton was born in London, served in the Royal Air Force, and was graduated from the Royal College of Art (which has since elected him a Senior Fellow). He lives with his family in Portugal.« less