Spy Sinker by Len Deighton

What kind of woman would leave her husband, her children and her home to live behind the Iron Curtain and work for the KGB? From the brilliant Oxford graduate who understands the espionage game better than most of her male colleagues, to the beguiling woman who uses her charm and brains to deceive everyone around her, Fiona Samson presents a fascinating puzzle. In her relationship with her father, who wanted her to be a boy, and taught her the lifetime habits of secrecy, in her love for Bernard and her children, in the illicit affair with a mystery lover, or in her work for the KGB, we see her torn by conflicting and complex needs: driven by an ambition she cannot assuage, haunted by passions she dare not express. 'Spy Sinker' is a novel of many interlocking puzzles, for with the third person narrative comes a very different picture of characters we thought we knew: Brett Rensselaer, facing the breakup of his marriage, while secretly infatuated with Fiona. Werner Volkmann; Bernard has never doubted that he knew everything about his best friend. Nothing could be further from the truth. And as for Bernard himself, he is no means the paragon his own accounts would have us believe, nor is girlfriend Gloria's view what he imagines. This 1990 Hutchinson Hardback is in good condition. DJ.

ISBN: 9780091743208 SKU: 1557186 This image is of the actual book.

Location: Fiction