London Match
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London Match is a 1985 spy novel by Len Deighton.
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London Match projects the startling, conclusive round in the game of defection that opened, in Deighton's best-selling, Berlin Game, with the unmasking of a traitor at the highest level of British intelligence, and that resumed—intensified—in Mexico Set, with yield officer Bernard Samson enrolling his Soviet opposite number. Now the game reaches a new level of urgency and excitement when it becomes apparent that treason is epidemic in London Central.
As the novel moves between England and Berlin (both East and West), from the tense conference rooms in which the senior staff indulge their bitter rivalries to the desolate streets on either side of the Wall—the chosen gameboard for this murderous contest between London and Moscow—the surprises multiply, the suspense mounts. And as a cloud of suspicion passes over each senior officer, as each fall helplessly into Moscow Centre's brilliant, complex trap, London Match rushes toward its amazing climax: the ultimate, decisive confrontation between Samson and the British KGB agent who, from the very beginning, has held Samson's entire life in delicate imbalance (who may be his ex-wife, Fiona).
This novel is part of a trilogy, which has a prequel, called Winter. The first novel in the trilogy is Berlin Game; the second is Mexico Set.
Years after its publication, the BBC made a film version of the trilogy, called Game, Set, and Match, starring Ian Holm as Bernard Samson and Mel Martin as Fiona. It was adapted by John Howlett and directed by Ken Grieve and Patrick Lau. It is not easy to find: Netflix doesn't have it, nor do most libraries.
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