‘A most impressive book in which the tension, more like a chronic ache than a sharp stab of pain, never lets go.’ Evening Standard
‘A ferociously cool fable, even better than The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.’ New York Times
‘Brilliant, bright and wicked.’ Vogue
‘A master of fictional espionage.’ Daily Mail
‘The poet of the spy story.’ Sunday Times
‘Deighton is so far in the front of other writers in the field that they are not even in sight’ Sunday Times
‘Nobody now seriously doubts that Deighton is the most credible of all the spysmiths’ The Scotsman