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Len Deighton
A Russian scientist defects, believing that in the West he will more easily realize his dream of contacting planets in outer space. But British Intelligence and the CIA have more…
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In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall…
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Len Deighton’s classic first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy - later christened Harry Palmer and made famous worldwide in the iconic 1960s film starring Michael Caine.
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Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with the man who led the old anti-Nazi Guernica network. Time to reopen the master file on yesterday’s spy…
An unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File - is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but…
The long-awaited reissue of the first part of the classic spy trilogy, HOOK, LINE and SINKER, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.
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A sweeping portrait of one Berlin family, spanning generations and two world wars
Peter and Paul, the two sons of German businessman Harald Winter, are bonded together by a childhood…
Berlin Game begins with a plea from "Brahms Four," one of Britain's most valuable agents stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and come to the…
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Dive into an exotic realm of danger and espionage in this tale of extraordinary characters, adventure, and high-voltage suspense set in Egypt amid the turmoil of World War II.
Deighton’s incendiary novel of the film industry back in print after 20 years. A Hollywood Babylon for our time.
Events relating to the last flight of an RAF Bomber over Germany on the night of June 31st, 1943.
The dead hand of a long-defeated Nazi Third Reich reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech in Deighton’s second novel, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of The IPCRESS…
The long-awaited reissue of the final part of the classic spy trilogy, HOOK, LINE and SINKER, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.
A ferociously cool Cold War thriller from the author of The Ipcress File.
If America is a lunatic asylum, then California is the Violent Ward.
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The classic spy thriller of lethal computer-age intrigue and a maniac’s private cold war, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of The IPCRESS File.
Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY
Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the first 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…
Long-awaited reissue of the final part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.
The long-awaited reissue of the second part of the classic spy trilogy, HOOK, LINE and SINKER, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.
A compelling history of Blitzkrieg: the ‘lightning war’ by which Hitler and his generals overwhelmed the Allied armies in Western Europe.
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A collection of thirteen stories that offer an inside view of fighting men poised at the edge of death. Includes a new fourteenth story which appears here for the very…
A chilling alternative history in which the Nazis have conquered Britain, now in the iconic Penguin Crime series
It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied…
'A stunning spy story ... incomparable' Guardian
It is the most dangerous secret of the Second World War, one that could destroy Britain's reputation forever. In 1940, a clandestine meeting…
'The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world' The Times
December 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk…
"Bernard Samson is tormented. After years on the "other side," his wife, Fiona, is finally back in his life. Cool and sophisticated, Fiona doesn't know that she finds Bernard caught…
June 11, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill?
"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."…
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"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…
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…
Bernard Samson is a spy on the run, forced to abandon his life and job and plunge into hiding. But in the murky, dangerous streets of Berlin, he knows where…
"Deighton's best book . . . an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation." --The New York Times Book Review It is 1941 and…
"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…
What Bernard Sampson, protagonist of Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match, is about to know may hurt him. When word gets to London Central that a cache of millions…
