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!!Trilogy 1: ''Game, Set and Match''.

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!!The Epic:

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!!Trilogy 2: ''Hook, Line and Sinker''

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!!Trilogy Trilogy 2: ''Hook, Line and Sinker''



!!Trilogy 3: ''Faith, Hope and Charity''

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!!Trilogy Trilogy 3: ''Faith, Hope and Charity''




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* {{Obfuscating Stupidity}}/{{Obfuscating Disability}}: In the 'Game, Set and Match' trilogy, it is strongly rumoured that the Director-General of [=MI6=], Sir Henry Clevemore has gone totally senile. The second trilogy reveals that this is anything but the case.

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* {{Obfuscating Stupidity}}/{{Obfuscating Disability}}: ObfuscatingStupidity: In the 'Game, Set and Match' trilogy, it is strongly rumoured that the Director-General of [=MI6=], Sir Henry Clevemore has gone totally senile. The second trilogy reveals that this is anything but the case.



* The Stale Beer approach to SpyFiction.
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy, Hot Girlfriend]]: Bernard and Gloria

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* The Stale Beer approach to SpyFiction.
* [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy, Hot Girlfriend]]:
UglyGuyHotWife: Bernard and GloriaGloria.



* WannabeSecretAgent: Werner Volkman is something of a suberversion of this trope; he desperately wants to work for the British as a secret agent, and when given the chance to do so, is incredibly good at it. Julian [=MacKenzie=] in "Mexico Set" plays this straight, with tragic consequences.

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* WannabeSecretAgent: Subversion. Werner Volkman is something of a suberversion of this trope; he desperately wants to work for the British as a secret agent, and when given the chance to do so, is incredibly good at it. Julian [=MacKenzie=] in "Mexico Set" plays this straight, with tragic consequences.
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* TheAllegedCar: With so much action in UsefulNotes/EastGermany, Trabants and other Soviet-bloc cars figure heavily (and all MI6 can obtain are older used ones).

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* TheAllegedCar: With so much action in UsefulNotes/EastGermany, Trabants and other Soviet-bloc cars figure heavily (and all MI6 [=MI6=] can obtain are older used ones).



* {{Obfuscating Stupidity}}/{{Obfuscating Disability}}: In the 'Game, Set and Match' trilogy, it is strongly rumoured that the Director-General of MI6, Sir Henry Clevemore has gone totally senile. The second trilogy reveals that this is anything but the case.

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* {{Obfuscating Stupidity}}/{{Obfuscating Disability}}: In the 'Game, Set and Match' trilogy, it is strongly rumoured that the Director-General of MI6, [=MI6=], Sir Henry Clevemore has gone totally senile. The second trilogy reveals that this is anything but the case.
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* {{Oxbridge}}: Bernard has a chip on his shoulder over those who owe their advancement to their connections as opposed to his field experience.
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* TheAllegedCar: With so much action in EastGermany, Trabants and other Soviet-bloc cars figure heavily (and all MI6 can obtain are older used ones).

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* TheAllegedCar: With so much action in EastGermany, UsefulNotes/EastGermany, Trabants and other Soviet-bloc cars figure heavily (and all MI6 can obtain are older used ones).
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!!Trilogy 1: In which Fiona Samson turns out to be an East German agent and defects. Bernard acquires a girlfriend called Gloria.

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!!Trilogy 1: In which Fiona Samson turns out to be an East German agent ''Game, Set and defects. Bernard acquires a girlfriend called Gloria.Match''.



!!Trilogy 2: In which Fiona Samson turns out to actually be a triple agent. Her sister ends up dead and buried in an East German roadworks.

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!!Trilogy 2: In which Fiona Samson turns out to actually be a triple agent. Her sister ends up dead ''Hook, Line and buried in an East German roadworks.Sinker''



!!Trilogy 3: Written after the fall of the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall, but set before it.

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!!Trilogy 3: Written after the fall of the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall, but set before it.''Faith, Hope and Charity''
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Trilogy 1: In which Fiona Samson turns out to be an East German agent and defects. Bernard acquires a girlfriend called Gloria.

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Trilogy !!Trilogy 1: In which Fiona Samson turns out to be an East German agent and defects. Bernard acquires a girlfriend called Gloria.



The Epic:

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The !!The Epic:



Trilogy 2: In which Fiona Samson turns out to actually be a triple agent. Her sister ends up dead and buried in an East German roadworks.

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Trilogy !!Trilogy 2: In which Fiona Samson turns out to actually be a triple agent. Her sister ends up dead and buried in an East German roadworks.



Trilogy 3: Written after the fall of the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall, but set before it.

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Trilogy !!Trilogy 3: Written after the fall of the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall, but set before it.



This series contains examples of:

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A trilogy of trilogies with an epic thrown in for good measure, this is the second best known series of Creator/LenDeighton. (His earlier series was known as "The spy with no name" in the books, who was called "Harry Palmer" in the movies).

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A trilogy of trilogies trilogies, with an epic thrown in for good measure, this is the second best known series of Creator/LenDeighton. (His earlier series was known as "The spy with no name" in the books, who was called "Harry Palmer" in the movies).

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A trilogy of trilogies with an epic thrown in for good measure, this is the second best known series of [[Main/{{LenDeighton}} Len Deighton]]. (His earlier series was known as "The spy with no name" in the books, who was called "Harry Palmer" in the movies).

It stars a British spy called Bernard Samson who is as much a Berliner as an Englishman, having grown up as the child of an Allied Occupation officer who attended [[UsefulNotes/GermanEducationSystem German schools]] and over the course of the series discovers that his wife, also a spy, is working for [[Main/{{EastGermany}} East Germany]].

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A trilogy of trilogies with an epic thrown in for good measure, this is the second best known series of [[Main/{{LenDeighton}} Len Deighton]].Creator/LenDeighton. (His earlier series was known as "The spy with no name" in the books, who was called "Harry Palmer" in the movies).

It stars a British spy called Bernard Samson who is as much a Berliner as an Englishman, having grown up as the child of an Allied Occupation officer who attended [[UsefulNotes/GermanEducationSystem German schools]] and over the course of the series discovers that his wife, also a spy, is working for [[Main/{{EastGermany}} East Germany]].
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* UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}



* [[spoiler:FakeDefector]]



* The Stale Beer approach to [[Main/{{SpyFiction}} Spy Fiction]]

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* The Stale Beer approach to [[Main/{{SpyFiction}} Spy Fiction]]SpyFiction.



* UnreliableNarrator: According to WordOfGod we're not meant to take Bernard's view of his colleagues too seriously; they're not really as stupid as he makes out.



* UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo (''Winter'')
* {{Unreliable Narrator}}: According to WordOfGod we're not meant to take Bernard's view of his colleagues too seriously; they're not really as stupid as he makes out.

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* UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo (''Winter'')
* {{Unreliable Narrator}}: According to WordOfGod we're not meant to take Bernard's view of his colleagues too seriously; they're not really as stupid as he makes out.
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Trilogy 3: Written after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but set before it.

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Trilogy 3: Written after the fall of the Berlin Wall, UsefulNotes/BerlinWall, but set before it.



* {{Berlin}}

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* {{Berlin}}UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}



* OvertOperative: In the first novel, Berlin Game, Bernard becomes suspicious of two KGB officers who are deliberately behaving like KGB Officers [[spoiler: and reasons that they are trying to draw attention to one double agent in SIS to draw attention away from a better placed agent]].

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* OvertOperative: In the first novel, Berlin Game, ''Berlin Game'', Bernard becomes suspicious of two KGB officers who are deliberately behaving like KGB Officers [[spoiler: and reasons that they are trying to draw attention to one double agent in SIS to draw attention away from a better placed agent]].



* RedHerringMole: Giles Trent in 'Berlin Game'
* SpyMaster: Brett Rensselaer is revealed as this

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* RedHerringMole: Giles Trent in 'Berlin Game'
''Berlin Game''.
* SpyMaster: Brett Rensselaer is revealed as this this.

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* {{Unreliable Narrator}}

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* WorldWarTwo (''Winter'')

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* WorldWarTwo UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo (''Winter'')
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* [[UglyGuyHotWife, Ugly Guy, Hot Girlfriend]]: Bernard and Gloria

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* [[UglyGuyHotWife, [[UglyGuyHotWife Ugly Guy, Hot Girlfriend]]: Bernard and Gloria

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* [[UglyGuyHotWife, Ugly Guy, Hot Girlfriend]]: Bernard and Gloria



* UglyGuyHotGirlfriend: Bernard and Gloria

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* UglyGuyHotGirlfriend: Bernard and Gloria

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