SPY SINKER is the crescendo climax of the six

previous bestselling novels by Len Deighton

--and it ties them all together.

Why, really, did Bernard Samson s wife,

Fiona, disappear into East Berlin, leaving

him with two young children and a wrecked

career as a spy? How did it happen?

This, at last, is Fiona s story. We see how

she was recruited by the KGB as a young

Oxford student. But we also see her rise

through the hierarchy of the British intelli-

gence system until she is their superspy for

East Germany. Her mission: the shady, dan-

gerous dealings that will help bring down the

Berlin Wall in 1989.

Beautiful, brilliant Fiona is thus caught in

the double world of two espionage systems.

But there is still another split: her love for her

husband and children, and tile growing real-

ization that it is only through treachery and

deceit to the ones she loves most that Fiona

can serve her country. And then there is tiffs

charming American who loves her

Flashes of violence and terror interweave

with biting humor and an exquisite under-

standing of the human foibles that pack fam-

ily life and political life. From England s

grand and not-so-grand houses to the gray

streets of Berlin, a vibrant sensitivity illu-

mines men and women involved with treach-

ery, passion, power, double-dealing, revenge,

and even love. A masterpiece of plot.

The millions of readers caught up by Spy

Hook and Spy Line will want to know what

really happened, and why and how. New

readers will be carried by the tremendous

excitement of tiffs latest Len Deighton novel.