Funeral in Berlin

Len Deighton is one of the greatest cold war spy novelists of this era, and Funeral in Berlin, was his third novel, written in 1964 about a story that occurred a year earlier. This is a classic espionage novel about an unnamed British agent. The stories involves a complex interaction of double and triple agents. Anticipating a trip to Germany in the near future, I came to this book as the result of an attempt to find mysteries that used Berlin as a venue. I got to the 22% of the story and did not finish the book since I found it dated and trite, but it must have been a major hit in its time.