A combined volume of three separate but related stories: “Berlin Game,” “Mexico Set” and “London Match.” In
Game,
a well-placed British mole working in East Berlin (as Brahms Four) is
rescued to London. At the same time a Russian mole working in London
Central (Fiona) is flushed out by her husband but manages to escape to
Moscow, where she is given Soviet citizenship and the rank of KGB
colonel.
Set and
Match
are about a plan by Fiona to destabilize the British intelligence
agency London Central: A KGB official (Stinnes) is dressed up so that
London Central would wish to enroll him. On getting to London he is to
act sick, yet refuse medical examination (to avoid going through
rigorous interrogation). At that time false evidence are manufactured to
the effect that one senior official in London Central (Bret) is a
second Russian mole. Stinnes is to give supporting evidence. In
Set,
Fiona’s husband Bernard is suspected to be a Russian agent like his
wife. Fiona arranges certain events to frame him (including getting him a
Russian passport) but he puts up a good fight. They want him to enrol
Stinnes to prove his loyalty, and he gets this done. In
Match,
Stinnes tries to wreck havoc in London. When Bernard gets wind of
evidence to suggest the existence of a second Russian mole in London,
everything points to Bret, and even London Central people get him under
house arrest. But luckily, Bernard realizes the true purpose of Stinnes
and gets him immediately sent back to the Russians to avoid further
damage, in exchange for his friend Werner who is under arrest in East
Berlin.
Bernard is quite an interesting character in the tales, in that he
didn’t go to college and started working after high school. At 40 he had
more on-the-job experience than the graduates who worked with him and
got the jobs he should have gotten.
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