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Mexico Set (Game Set & Match) [Kindle Edition]

Len Deighton (Author)
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‘Deighton’s best… until the next’
Daily Mail

‘The poet of the spy story’
Sunday Times

‘A master of fictional espionage’
Daily Mail

‘Deighton is back in his original milieu, the bleak spy world of betrayers and betrayed’
Observer

‘Deighton is a marvel… few authors writing in the rigorous and finite genre of spy fiction have mastered the craft as well as Deighton… Mexico Set is a pure tale, told by an author at the height of his power’
Chicago Tribune

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Long-awaited reissue of the second part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.

A lot of people had plans for Bernard Samson…

When they spotted Erich Stinnes in Mexico City, it was obvious that Bernard Samson was the right man to ‘enrol’ him. With his domestic life a shambles and his career heading towards disaster, Bernard needed to prove his reliability. and he knew Stinnes already - Bernard had been interrogated by him in East Berlin.

But Bernard risks being entangled in a lethal web of old loyalties and old betrayals.

All he knows for sure is that he has to get Erich Stinnes for London.

Who’s pulling the strings is another matter…

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 546 KB
  • Print Length: 419 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0586058214
  • Publisher: Harper (10 Jun 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B003P9XE60
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #7,311 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Bernard Samson again 28 Feb 2011
By TheDoc
Format:Paperback
The second of the Game, Set and Match trilogy which introduced Deighton's substitute for the unsubstitutable Harry Palmer, Bernard Sampson. Most of the narrative takes place in Berlin rather than Mexico but nevertheless the novel finally gives the lie to the idea that spy fiction couldn't outlive the collapse of communism, the end of the cold war and the Berlin wall.
Most of the characters first appeared in Berlin Game, the first of the trilogy which really should be read first, and as in all good fiction they appear to live and breathe in the room with us. Intelligent hokum of the first order. Highly recommended.
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The cold war 19 May 2012
By Robin
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Excellent audio book about the cold war. Very well written and read perfectly. Len Deighton is a master of his craft.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Second installment in classic spy trilogy 10 Dec 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Still reeling from his wife's defection Bernard Samson is dispatched to Mexico City, accompanied by his boss, the obnoxious Dicky Cruyer. Their mission: To enroll a KGB agent who may, or may not, have knowledge that will help clear up the mysteries surrounding the defection of Bernard's wife.

The book provides an entertaining portrait of Mexico in the early '80s, as well as the incompetence and self-serving attitude of Britain's Foreign Service.

While the book can be enjoyed in its own right, it is part of a series, and as such can be best enjoyed when read as such.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
There is no 'love' in the tennis match of espionage 15 Mar 2004
By Larry Scantlebury - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This is the second novel of the Bernard Samson trilogy which begins with Berlin Game and ends with London Match. The story opens with Dicky Cruyer cursing at a pedestrian in a Mexico trafic jam. Interestingly enough, Mr. Deighton shows us the pedestrian 400 pages later to see if we've been paying attention.

Samson, a professional MI-6 field operative, is devastated by the defection of his wife, Fiona, to the other side. Read KGB. Read the evil empire. To all that ask him 'if he still loves her' he denies he does. But Mr. Deighton leaves any number of clues for his readers to make us know that at best, it's just false bravado.

Handicapped somewhat emotionally by the strain of realizing that their whole marriage, the children, the shared experiences was but a stage she played upon, Bernard must also face the onslaught of accusatory hearings from his employers at London Central, the 'deskmen' lacking any field experience where hard men do the hard things that he hates so much.

We see the old characters Frank Harrington, the Iago-like Dicky, the self serving Bret Rensselaer, and his close friend for life Werner Volkmann and Volkmann's straying wife, Zena.

Deighton's humor is subtle and droll. When faced with a dilemma Dicky says "Muy BLOODY complicado," Bernard thinks 'that's only because he doesn't understand.'

Blood is spilt, sometimes innocent blood, sometimes not so innocent. Bernard is loyal, confused, older, tripped up by forces that should be aiding him but who have their own agendas. Erich Stinnes, the KGB officer who interrogated him in East Berlin says to him, "I hate deskmen." Samson replies "Me too. They're bloody dangerous."

Excellent read about the life and death struggles of the alphabet agencies of the 70's and 80's. You don't have to read Berlin Game first but it helps. Things are different now . . but maybe not. Maybe there are just different letters. 5 stars. Larry Scantlebury

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Tennis anyone? 'Game' to Fiona, 'Set'... 19 Feb 2001
By "michaeleve" - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
...as yet undecided, in this the second book in the 'Berlin Game', 'Mexico Set' and 'London Match' spy trilogy featuring Bernard Samson. And what a contest this is - Bernard's wife - Fiona stunned most of us in the first book by being exposed as the long serving KGB mole inside MI6. She won that 'game' by defecting East, having done her damage and leaving more behind. Bernard is shattered. He exposed Fiona but is now under suspicion himself (MI6 is wondering - can you be married to a 'mole' for over a decade and not know? or is he one himself?).

Bernard has a chance to redeem himself by bringing in Erich Stinnes, Fiona's KGB assistant who is supposedly defecting. Off he goes to Mexico to debrief Stinnes, but soon questions arise and Bernard is again in a fix. Is Stinnes a Fiona 'plant' designed to further discredit Bernard and convince London that he is KGB? or is he genuine? Poor Bernard. Amidst all this he has to contend with political infighting in MI6, unwanted advances from his sister in law, Tessa and deal with self doubt and guilt over Fiona. He often wonders whether the collapse of their marriage and Fiona's betrayal was all her own doing or did he have something to do with it.

Suffice it to say the plot unfolds suitably and all the above questions are satisfactorily answered.

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