Publisher's Synopsis
Michael Caine's second outing as the bespectacled secret agent Harry Palmer - created by Len Deighton - sees him journey to Cold War Berlin where he has been asked to assist with the defection of a Russian security chief (Oscar Homolka). Palmer arranges an escape based around a fake funeral, but when he gets the coffin out of East Berlin he discovers that it contains the wrong body. With the double-crosses coming on thick and fast, Palmer's gonna have to work hard to see his way out of this one.
