Spy Hook Author:Len Deighton Bernie Samson, ex-field man, now a paper-pushing intelligence officer with the Foreign Office, is sent on a fool's errand to discover if an old colleague, Jim Prettyman, will own up to taking some of the Company's cash. Right after Bernie leaves his office, no closer to an answer, Jim is quite brutally murdered by two men and six bullets in an u... more »nderground garage. Back in London, Bernie learns a few shocking things. It turns out there's a few million pounds missing, and Jim was up to his neck in Department business years after he had supposedly resigned. It's unsettling information like this that keeps gnawing at Bernie's gut, keeping him up nights - small deceptions, false stories, disinformation - little things that add up to something very big, very mean, and very, very dangerous.« less