Spy Line - Hardcover By Deighton, Len - Read once - very good condition
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Spy Line - Hardcover By Deighton, Len - Read once - very good condition. Set in the United States, this espionage fiction novel spans 291 pages and is written in English. "I've put myself in Prison. and they don't even have the bother or the expense of it.". but they don't seem to care about him one way or the other. "Spy Line" by Len Deighton is a thrilling hardcover book published in 1989 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Set in the United States, this espionage fiction novel spans 291 pages and is written in English. With a gripping plot revolving around thrillers and espionage, this book is sure to captivate readers with its intriguing storyline and engaging narrative by the renowned author, Len Deighton. British Agent Bernard Samson, whom we lost met in Spy Hook, is suffering the consequences of having meddled when he was instructed to steer clear. Far from being thanked for Ferreting out what appeared to be evidence of an unprecedented breach of security in the Secret Service, he is on the run from an arrest warrant Issued by the Service naming him as a traitor. Now he is hiding in Berlin; hiding on a rundown, dangerous dead-end street that crashes up against the Wall and harbors the destitute, the illegal, and the lost. Samson knows how to make himself fit in and disappear - he's had a lifetime of sanctioned practice -- but he's worried that he's played into London's hand. "I've put myself in Prison .... and they don't even have the bother or the expense of it." As the weeks pass Samson slowly realizes that the Service knows where he i; they've even continued to pay his salary. but they don't seem to care about him one way or the other...... So, when word finally comes that he can return to London -- all charges dropped, no board to face, no tribunal -- the invitation takes Samson by surprise. But he is much less surprised to learn that the string attached to this promise of freedom could bind him for life. And when, back at London Central, he is off-handedly given an assignment in Vienna, Samson is reminded of something he once told a young Service recruit: the more casual the briefing the more hazardous the operation. In fact, even before Samson lands in Vienna, he ha taken the first, irreversible steps toward the center of a web of Secret Service mystery and subterfuge even more complex, and more perilous, than he had feared
