Mexico Set by Len Deighton (1985)

Mexico Set
by Len Deighton
Publisher:  Alfred A. Knopf
Copyright:  1985
First American Edition

In the final pages of Len Deighton's best-selling thriller Berlin Game, agent Bernard Samson succeeded -- to his own horror -- in unmasking a traitor at the highest level of British intelligence.  Now, in Mexico Set, the story resumes -- with London Central determined to even the score, and with the traitor (now head of KGB operations in East Berlin) making trouble once again for the cool, cynical Samson.

The trouble begins in Mexico, where Samson is on the trail of his Soviet opposite number:  Erich Stinnes, a KGB major whom London Central wishes to recruit, to enroll, to coax over to the West . . .

The task of laying the delicate and elaborate groundwork for Stinnes's defection propels Samson from Mexico to London, to Paris, Berlin, and the East-West border.  What happens along the way -- a temporary abduction, an unnecessary murder, an inconvenient suicide -- happens so fast that Samson hardly seems able to keep London Central informed of developments.  Or is it that Samson wants to keep his colleagues in the dark?  Certainly London Central's entire senior staff -- from Samson's immediate supervisors, locked in their endless internecine office warfare, to the dotty Director-General himself -- would have reason to suspect that Samson might be working for the other side.  He was, after all, closer than any of the others to the former traitor-in-their-midst . . .

And Samson himself is losing control -- indeed, events seem to be controlling him.  As he finds himself in a series of ever more incriminating positions, as one by one the avenues of escape or vindication close before him, the novel winds back toward Mexico . . . and toward the astonishing climax -- at the scene of the defection Samson has so painstakingly orchestrated -- in which the allegiances of all involved are finally and fatefully revealed.

Mexico Set -- a brilliant successor to the highly acclaimed Berlin Game -- is, in its own right, a superb thriller.  It will stand as one of Len Deighton's finest.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover is lightly discolored and edges are rubbed.  Pages may be tanning from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.

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