Funeral in Berlin

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Contents 1 Author 2 Categories 3 Characters 4 Reflections

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Len Deighton

Preceded by The Ipcress File

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Spy vs. Guy fiction

Basis for the film Funeral in Berlin (II)

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Harry Palmer (in the film; in the novel, the main character is unnamed)

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Ron Edwards: Like a bomb dropped on the Bond genre. I kept thinking, I've read this "voice" before, who is it, why does it seem so perfect for the early 60s, and then I realized: a similar hip, keep-up-if-you-can style to The Crying of Lot 49, by Thomas Pynchon.