The Berlin Game trilogy made lockdown possible.

Deighton's outstanding achievement is the nine-volume series chronicling the life and times of Bernard Samson ... Deighton's Samson trilogies are as much about the elusiveness of human interactions as espionage. Spying is not a secret world sealed off from ordinary life but an extension of the world we all live in.

Spying at its most captivating and intricate.

Deighton's best novel to date - sharp, witty and sour, like Raymond Chandler adapted to British gloom and the multiple betrayals of the private spy.

Virtuoso top level performance.

Sheer consistent rightness page after page after page.

A labyrinthine espionage epic lightened with laconic wit.

Deighton, as always, makes the familiar twists and turns of spy errantry new again, partly by his grip of narrative, partly by his grasp of character, and partly by his easy, sardonic tone.

Len Deighton's spy novels are so good they make me sad the Cold War is over.

Truly remarkable...Grips your heart from the first pages and simply never lets go

Tense, unpredictable, blending a thriller with an intimate family story to produce a most compelling read

Praise for Nicola Moriarty

Had me turning the pages into the small hours

Expect dark themes and plot twists a plenty

Dramatic, mysterious and compelling

Kept me guessing to the end

With secrets and intrigue, this is a compulsive read

Moriarty rocks the drama genre

Nicola Moriarty belongs to a family tree laded with writers. She more than holds her own

Nicola's got great pace and snappy dialogue, and I especially like her male characters