"A splendid combination of craftsmanship and unbridled inventiveness."
Library Journal

"Spy Story gets closer to what Kipling called The Great Game of international
espionage than any fiction of recent years. Some of the details about underwater
monitoring are certain to raise eyebrows, if nothing more, in the Pentagon and the
Admiralty."New York Times

He's back: the insubordinate, decent, bespectacled English spy who has fought, fumbled,
and outwitted his way through Len Deighton's most celebrated spy thrillers.

On his way home, the unsuspecting ex-spy's car breaks down close to his old flat, and
he breaks in to telephone for help. He is shocked to discover himself duplicated there:
the same clothes, china, record collection and, spookiest of all, even the same photographs.

Very much against his will, Deighton's hero is propelled into a brutal, devious conspiracy of
East/West power politics. Soon embedded in its coils are the Red Admiral commanding
Soviet antisubmarine warfare, a wealthy English eccentric, and a drunken member of
Parliament who may be working for the British Secret Service.

Spy Story is vintage Len Deighton, a plot with stunning counterfeits and unfailing
suspense right to its final devastating nightmarish climax.