In 1963, Berlin is dark and dangerous. Len Deighton’s skilled, jaded, anony­mous hero of The IPCRESS File is now set to arrange the defection—and fake the death—of a leading Soviet scien­tist. “A ferociously cool fable” (New York Times) and one of the first novels written after the construction of the Berlin Wall, Funeral in Berlin revels in the fraught, chilling atmosphere of a divided city.

Praise for Funeral in Berlin:

“A ferociously cool fable.”—New York Times

“An emphatic and successful performance.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“A most impressive book in which the tension, more like a chronic ache than a sharp stab of pain, never lets go.”—Evening Standard

“A super-duper, dazzling display of intelligence agents at work… sparkling with bright wit and satirical and sardonic humor . . . a slam-bang of a novel, and the only one we can guarantee won’t be double-crossed is the reader!”—Hartford Courant