"Moral ambiguity used to be called Greeneland. Since Graham Greene's
death, that territory is open for conquest. At least part of it ought to be renamed
Deightonville."Time

"The poet of the spy story."Sunday Times

With cold war loyalties shifting in the freezing wind, Bernard is forced back into the
"game," this time without the moral sureness that evil lies exclusively on the other
side of the Iron Curtain. Caught between his job and his ethics, his past and his future,
and the two women he loves, trapped in a maze of deception and danger where nothing
is what it seems, Samson undertakes a mission that leads from rural Poland to the
heart of London Central.

With the rare hand of a master, Deighton vividly paints the shadowy world of spies and
moles, agents and double agents pitted in a war in which physical violence is only the
beginning.