Why authors get gray hairs: Len Deighton

If you like reading Len Deighton, here’s a puzzle for you.

In the US hardcover of Berlin Game (Knopf, 1983) only the right-hand pages have actual page numbers – the left pages just say “Berlin Game”. In that edition, at least, two left-hand pages (with one right-hand page between them) got transposed. Then when the US paperback came out, it had the out-of-order text. Seeing that, I figured Deighton must not know what had happened in the US, so I wrote to him, decades ago. Sure enough, news to him. I got a letter from his agent (in the UK) saying that the publisher (or someone) had “resolutely” denied that any mistake had been made. So I sent the agent the details, but I didn’t think I needed to send an actual US-edition book. Apparently I should have – I bet if you order a US-published copy now it will still be wrong.

Can you find the transposition? Will be easier if you have the Knopf hardcover, where the text ends on page 345.