Len Deighton

Angleterre, 1941. Londres est occupé par l'armée nazie. Churchill est mort, le roi George croupit au fond d'une cellule et la loi martiale terrorise le pays. Douglas Archer, commissaire à Scotland Yard, se voit confier une enquête de la plus haute importance : le Dr Spode, brillant physicien qui travaillait pour les nazis, a été assassiné et retrouvé avec d'étranges brûlures sur les bras. Et si ce meurtre était le signe avant-coureur de...

With the rare hand of a master, Deighton vividly paints the shadowy world of spies, agents and double agents pitted in a war in which physical violence is only the beginning ... The Berlin Wall is about to crumple, and cold war loyalties are shifting with the wind. Bernard Samson, survivor and spy extraordinaire, is forced back into the "game" ... this time without the moral sureness that evil lies exclusively on the other side of the Iron Curtain....

While Bert Cutler, Glasgow police inspector, escorts Jimmy Ross to Cairo to stand trial for killing an officer, he dies, and Ross assumes his identity so that in Cairo, Ross finds himself trying to apprehend the spy helping Rommell in Africa.

A group of Marxist revolutionaries try to take over a South American country led by a drug industry.