Bernard Samson is the protagonist of three trilogies written by Len Deighton.He is a jaded MI6 operative in West Germany during the cold war.The books focus on the 1980's. He undergoes great personal sacrifice in his duties and is often ignored by his superiors, especially in the first three Books, Berlin Game, Mexico Set and London Match. They are told in first person, and the plot is a complicated one, revolving around the defection of a KGB agent, and the questions as to whether or not his defection is real. Len Deighton (left) teaches Michael Caine how to break an egg on the set of The Ipcress File. ... The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language acronym for State Security Committee, (Russian: ▶ (help· info); Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ...