Editing Funeral in Berlin (section)

==Plot==
The [[Harry Palmer#Novels|protagonist]], who is unnamed, travels to Berlin to arrange the defection of a Soviet scientist named Semitsa, this being brokered by Johnny Vulkan of the Berlin intelligence community.<ref name=baker>[https://books.google.com/books?id=K3iYZjnLfXcC&dq=Funeral+in+Berlin&pg=PA44 Baker, Brian (2006) ''Masculinity in Fiction and Film: Representing Men in Popular Genres, 1945–2000'', p. 42. Continuum International Publishing Group] at [[Google Books]]. Retrieved 29 April 2013.</ref> Despite the protagonist's scepticism, the deal seems to have the support of Russian security-chief Colonel Stok and Hallam at the [[Home Office]]. The fake documentation for Semitsa needs to be precisely specified. An Israeli intelligence agent named Samantha Steel is involved in the case but it soon becomes apparent that behind the façade of an elaborate mock funeral lies a game of deadly manoeuvres and ruthless tactics.