Spy Line. Len Deighton

      LEN DEIGHTON

      Spy Line

       Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      First published in Great Britain by Hutchinson Ltd 1989

      Copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 1989

      Introduction copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 2010

      Cover designer’s note © Arnold Schwartzman 2010

      Cover design and photography © Arnold Schwartzman 2010

      Len Deighton asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780586068984

      Ebook Edition © MARCH 2015 ISBN: 9780007395378

      Version: 2017-05-23

      Contents

       Cover

       Cover Designer’s Note

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Introduction

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

      

       Chapter 6

      

       Chapter 7

      

       Chapter 8

      

       Chapter 9

      

       Chapter 10

      

       Chapter 11

      

       Chapter 12

      

       Chapter 13

      

       Chapter 14

      

       Chapter 15

      

       Chapter 16

      

       Chapter 17

      

       Chapter 18

      

       Chapter 19

      

       Chapter 20

       Keep Reading

      

       About the Author

      

       By Len Deighton

      

       About the Publisher

       Cover designer’s note

      The deceptively simple titles of the Bernard Samson series still yielded a wealth of possibilities with regard to how they might be illustrated. This second book of the middle trilogy was no different, suggesting lines of authority, responsibility, accountability, relationships both open and hidden. After much consideration, I eventually incorporated the concept in a more visual way. For the cover of Spy Line I replaced the photograph on my Russian visa with that of Bernard Samson’s and then ran it through our studio paper shredder to emphasize the notion of lines, particularly lines of destruction, as if Bernard’s identity is being struck through, erased.

      The vignette on the back cover features a doctored photograph of one of my old passports, an Eastern Bloc immigration officer’s rubber stamp plus