'' is a
A Spy Novel by
Len Deighton . It also is the second of three
Film s that follow the characters from the initial film, ''
The Ipcress File ''; the third, ''
Billion Dollar Brain '', was arguably questionable in its approach to espionage. In the 1990s, Michael Caine returned to his ''
Harry Palmer '' role in ''
Bullet To Beijing '' and ''
Midnight In St. Petersburg ''.
The subject of the novel ''Funeral in Berlin ''—arranging a Soviet scientist's defection—is
dated , but the characters (especially Johnny Vulkan and Colonel Stok) remain memorable.
