Charity

About “Charity”

Charity is a 1996 spy novel by Len Deighton and the final book in the Faith, Hope and Charity trilogy, which follows Bernard Samson, a middle-aged intelligence officer with the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). It is the last fiction novel published during Deighton’s lifetime and continues the narrative arc established in the preceding Game, Set and Match and Hook, Line and Sinker trilogies. The novel is part of a larger series that includes the prequel Winter (1987), which covers the years 1900–1945 and provides background for some characters.