Len Deighton

Len Deighton

 Commentary 

Naturally, the author enjoys weaving an ever-increasing web of mystery for the reader of his Samson series. At times the techniques he uses are fairly unsubtle: ‘‘''Bernard,’ he said suddenly. ‘I’d better –‘ he stopped mid sentence. Mrs. Porter had entered the room quietly…‘The phone, sir…It’s the call from London’…we all knew, or guessed, that it was someone urgently interested in how the discussion had gone…’Bernard … help yourself to another brandy if you fancy it’…I had the feeling that Silas had been about to say something quite different.’ [Berlin Game'' chap 4]