Deighton's Winter: A Novel of a Berlin Family (1987), gives the "historical" background for many of the characters who appear in the Samson trilogies, especially the Winters and the Renasselaers.

Deighton's latest trilogy designed to tie up the loose ends in the spy career of Bernard Sampson, according to Deighton himself, now consists of Faith and Hope), with Charity in the offing.

Faith is set in Berlin in 1987, where Sampson is trying to cope with the unexpected return of his wife Fiona, also a spy, who had supposedly been unmasked as a double agent and had consequently defected to East Germany. Now in Faith she has unexpectedly "redefected" as part of a lengthy and carefully devised plan by London Central to cause political unrest in East Germany. However, this novel has been criticized as too involuted and lacking in action to be strongly effective, but such a...