Funeral in Berlin Funeral in Berlin Funeral in Berlin is a 1964 spy novel by Len Deighton set between Saturday October 5th and Sunday November 10th 1963. It was the third of four novels about an unnamed British agent. It was preceded by "The IPCRESS File" (1962) and "Horse Under Water" (1963), and followed by "Billion-Dollar Brain" (1966). The 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. Despite the protagonist's initial scepticism, the deal seems to have the support of Russian security-chief Colonel
Laughter in the Dark (novel) and Jean-Claude Drouot played Axel Rex. The book features in series 3 episode 8 of the television series Lost. Laughter in the Dark (novel) Laughter in the Dark (Original Russian title: Камера обскура, "Camera obscura") is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov and serialised in "Sovremennye Zapiski" in 1932. The first English translation, "Camera Obscura", was made by Winifred Roy and published in London in 1936 by Johnathan Long, the paperback imprint of Hutchinson Publishing, with the author credited as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin. Nabokov was so displeased by the translation's quality that he undertook his own, which was published in 1938