Faith. Len Deighton. 1995.

Prime minister of the political thriller, Len Deighton is back in top form with the first of a new trilogy in the continuing saga of Bernard Samson, the intrepid, insolent, and enigmatic agent of Deighton's blockbuster series: the Game.

Set, and Match and Hook, Line, and Sinker trilogies.

In Faith Samson is

beset. After her years on the

"other side," his wife. Fiona, is finally back in his life. But the cool and sophisticated Fiona can't help but know about the affair with Gloria, an attractive coworker half Bernard's age.

And she's not taking it well. His children have been grabbed by his arrogant father-in-law. His boss.

Dicky, warns that Bernard's jot is on the line-the same line that will get Dicky a promotion.

And Bernard has other troubles. like his secret orders

to leave California for the grim streets of Magdeburg, where, hours after his arrival, he finds himself in a shootout with Stasi agents on a dark 

country road-another airtight mission down the drain. At the time of darkest danger, Bernard needs his best friend, Werner, but Werner is exiled and in disgrace.

It's 1987, and the Cold War 15 turning to ice. "Ask no questions, Bernard," whisper the top brass at London Central as they struggle to avoid the fallout from the deepest scandal in the Department's history. Everyone is grabbing for that one last shred of glory. that one last pot of gold. Nothing is as it seems. And Bernard, caught between his job, his ethics, his past, and the two women he loves, finds there is no one he can confide in, nothing to depend on.

Except faith.