- Hardcover: 374 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; First Edition edition (9 Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060391189
- ISBN-13: 978-0060391188
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.3 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 538,818 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘All done with the chilling competence we expect from Mr Deighton… No padding, no slowing of pace, and writing is crisp and brutal’
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‘Dazzling ingenuity and cleverness’
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‘A remarkable feat’
Sunday Express
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The third novel in Deighton's "Hook, Line and Sinker" trilogy. Spanning a ten year period (1977-87), Deighton solves the mystery of Fiona's defection - was she a Soviet spy or wasn't she? He also retells some of the events from the "Game, Set and Match", trilogy from Fiona's point of view.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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When I first discovered the context and timing of Deighton's 'Sinker' I was, to say the least, puzzled. Although technically the third book in the Hook, Line, Sinker trilogy, its beginnings are a decade before the first two books. However, while the book could stand alone on its own merits, its place in the trilogy makes it into so much more. Though those who have read the first two books of the trilogy will know much of the way the story will twist and turn, there are still many surprises and revelations of the kind of which Deighton is the master. 'Sinker', written from a different perspective to the other Bernard Samson novels, answers many of the questions posed throughout the saga which could not have been revealed otherwise. Indeed, many of the revelations answer questions which the reader would hardly have noticed when reading the earlier novels. Those who have also read 'Winter' will gain all the more from the privilege - as is the case any of the Samson novels. Friends and foes alike return to enthrall the reader, and much more is learnt of all - the detached Anglophile Bret Rensellaer, warm yet dark Uncle Silas, the ever resouceful and loyal Werner Wolkmann, the doddering D-G, Stinnes the KGB Major and Fiona Samson, never short of a surprise. All in all the book is of class which few but Deighton can acheive, and draws you into a very personal level. A book I would recommend without hesitation to anyone.
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HOOK and LINE are both good spy thrillers in their own right, even if their overarching effect is to ruin the story that GAME SET and MATCH told so well by revealing that...well, read them and see. SPY SINKER is a different animal altogether. Deighton drops the first-person Bernard Samson point of view to retell the entire story from Berlin Game onwards from an omniscient angle. It is, therefore, a) dull, because we know everything which is going to happen anyway, only it was actually exciting the first time, and b) a redundant exercise in tying up loose ends and trying to explain away some of the more far-fetched consequences of HOOK and LINE (one character we thought was speaking in an earlier book, it is revealed, was actually impersonated by someone else (who we never met) who was good at mimicking voices. Right.) What is more, without the plot to keep you distracted, and with the best characters such as Bernard Samson and Dicky Cruyer written into the background, it is only in Spy Sinker that you notice what a rotten writer of prose Deighton is, and most of the funniest lines come when he thinks his way into Fiona's head: "he made her feel deeply feminine in a way she had never experienced before" (p122). Of course the real joke on the whole intelligence community was that when the Wall came down, noone, not even the CIA or SIS actually expected it. This would have been a sweet irony to end the series on, but Deighton tries to use his new vantage point of hindsight to make it look as if British Intelligence planned it all along. Nice try. That could be the perfect metaphor for Spy Sinker: a poor attempt to rewrite history that fails to convince.
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Spy Hook (Hook Line & Sinker)
I found this such a gripping read that I just could not put it down.It also made me want to read LINE and SINKER as well which I immediately ordered before I finished HOOK.I would reccomed this book to anyone who enjoys spy and counter spy stories.
I found this such a gripping read that I just could not put it down.It also made me want to read LINE and SINKER as well which I immediately ordered before I finished HOOK.I would reccomed this book to anyone who enjoys spy and counter spy stories.
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Pointless experiment
I have just finished GSM, Winter and HLS in that order, and found them all to be excellently written except this last. Read more
Published 11 months ago by BlueBiscuit
Brilliant!
A very satisfying retelling of the events in the Samson series (i.e. Berlin Game through to Spy Line) but this time not limited to Samson's perspective. Read more
Published 13 months ago by JimmyBob
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I was very pleased with the condition of this book and the quick service provided. The book itself is brilliant.
Published 15 months ago by yodette
Exciting finale to a riviting trilogy
Sampson's wife Fiona now upwardly mobile in the East German intelligence apparatus, is beginning to feel the strain of her years as a triple agent. Read more
Published on 8 July 1999
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