Funeral in Berlin
It was going to be a lovely funeral. Harry ‘Ipcress File’ Palmer just hoped it wouldn’t be his …
A Cold War spy thriller built on deception and doubt, where nothing and no one can be trusted, anchored by a wry protagonist navigating Berlin's divided landscape.
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
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