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Len Deighton
What kind of woman would leave her husband, her children, and her home to live behind the Iron Curtain and work for the KGB? From the brilliant Oxford graduate who…
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"The master of espionage writing at his brilliant best" --Mail on Sunday With the Cold War drawing to a close in the East, Bernard Samson is still haunted by the…
"Deighton, Greene and John le Carr? comprise the reigning triumvirate of fictional spymasters beside whom all others pale."--Seattle Times
In 1963, Berlin is dark and dangerous. Len Deighton's skilled, jaded…
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Bestselling author Len Deighton probes behind the scenes of World War II, revealing shocking truths about the poor planning, machinery, and performances of both sides–and how this affected the war…
A magisterial history of the Second World War by best-selling novelist and former RAF pilot Len Deighton
This unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers…
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In Goodbye Mickey Mouse Len Deighton has written his best novel yet: a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war… and what it was to be…
A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton's iconic unnamed protagonist--later christened Harry Palmer--to find out why. His search begins in a…
Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the first novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY
When disaffected KGB major Erich Stinnes is spotted in Mexico City, British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice him to take the final step and defect. With his domestic life…
June 11, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill?
Long-awaited reissue of the first part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.
"It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries…
"What raises Deighton's genre to art is not only his absorbing characters but his metaphoric grace, droll wit, command of technical detail . . . and sure sense of place."--Washington…
"The spy who's in the clear doesn't exist. Bernard Samson hoped they'd put British KGB agent Elvira Miller behind bars. She'd made a sweeping confession, but there was one troubling…
Deep in Marxist Guerilla territory a hopeless war is being fought.
Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY
Bernard Samson needs to stay out of trouble, to get to know his wife Fiona again, to put his relationship with his lover, Gloria behind him and to to re-establish…
Summer, 1940: western Europe has been conquered, and all that stands between Hitler and the invasion of England is the matter of air supremacy. And the RAF…
Long-awaited reissue of the second part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.
A Len Deighton story of three international confidence tricksters which was made into a film starring David Hemmings, Richard Attenborough and Alexandra Stewart. The three over-confident professionals are coolly and…
Computer games run in a classified war studies centre in London. Nuclear submarines prowl beneath Arctic ice. And war games go into real time. Patrick Armstrong - possibly the same…
Len Deighton - one of the masters of twentieth-century espionage fiction -- combines his expertise as both historian and novelist in Bomber, the classic World War II novel that relates…
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As Len Deightons superb trilogy concludes, Samson continues to peel away the mystery surrounding his sister-in-law Tessa Kosinskis murder on the crucial night his wife, Fiona, came back.
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On 1 June 1939 His Majesty’s submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials. Her loss is still the worst peacetime submarine disaster the Royal Navy has…
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This successful book describes one of the most momentous flights all time, the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in 1919
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Der englische Roman uber den Zweiten Weltkrieg ist von der literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung bislang vernachlassigt worden. Die vorliegende Arbeit will diesem Defizit entgegenwirken, indem sie detaillierte Analysen der Erzahlwerke vier englischer…