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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Patrick Lau

Patrick Lau is known for adapting Berlin Game, the book by Len Deighton published in 2014, for television.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the TV series is better.
Game, Set, and Match. Poster of the 1988 TV series and cover of the 1983 book, Berlin Game
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Berlin Game
Len Deighton, 1983
TV series vs book
Game, Set, and Match
Ken Grieve, Patrick Lau, 1988-

The series focuses on Bernard Samson, beginning with his search for the “mole” that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to bring out a Brahms agent. He is then sent to Mexico to try to persuade a KGB major to defect, using his childhood friend Werner Volkmann’s wife Zena as bait. After it appears another traitor is working at London Central, Samson himself becomes one of the prime suspects.

Game, Set, and Match. Poster of the 1988 TV series and cover of the 1985 book, London Match
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London Match
Len Deighton, 1985
TV series vs book
Game, Set, and Match
Ken Grieve, Patrick Lau, 1988-

The series focuses on Bernard Samson, beginning with his search for the “mole” that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to bring out a Brahms agent. He is then sent to Mexico to try to persuade a KGB major to defect, using his childhood friend Werner Volkmann’s wife Zena as bait. After it appears another traitor is working at London Central, Samson himself becomes one of the prime suspects.

Game, Set, and Match. Poster of the 1988 TV series and cover of the 1985 book, Mexico Set
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Mexico Set
Len Deighton, 1985
TV series vs book
Game, Set, and Match
Ken Grieve, Patrick Lau, 1988-

The series focuses on Bernard Samson, beginning with his search for the “mole” that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to bring out a Brahms agent. He is then sent to Mexico to try to persuade a KGB major to defect, using his childhood friend Werner Volkmann’s wife Zena as bait. After it appears another traitor is working at London Central, Samson himself becomes one of the prime suspects.