18 results for '"Len Deighton"'

"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 Post Peter and...

"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 Germany has won the...

"Masterly ... absolute bliss." - Sunday Telegraph 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...

"Spy Line is vigorous and sleazy, psychologically complex and action-packed. And it is always exciting." --Daily Mail Bernard Samson is a spy on the run, forced to abandon his life and job and plunge...

'The master of espionage writing at his brilliant best." - Mail on Sunday Bernard Samson is still tormented by the mystery surrounding the cold-blooded murder of his sister-in-law, Tessa, on the...

"Steve Champion-flamboyant businessman, former leader of an anti-Nazi network in the Second World War-is a man surrounded by mysteries. There are rumors he is still in the spying business. The...

"Deighton, Greene and John le Carré comprise the reigning triumvirate of fictional spymasters beside whom all others pale."--Seattle Times In 1963, Berlin is dark and dangerous. Len Deighton's...

"As fresh and brisk as ever . . . a feast to be wallowed in."-- Sunday Express In Len Deighton's second novel of the classic spy trilogy, Faith, Hope, Charity, Bernard Samson is trying to readjust...

"A stunning spy story... incomparable." - The Guardian It's 1979, and a group of former SS officers are devising a plan to seize power in West Germany. XPD is a brilliant novel constructed around a...

"Deighton writes with effortless mastery." --Wall Street Journal Bernard Samson's wife, Fiona, has just been chosen by the British Secret Service to be their top agent in Germany, set to undermine...

Norfolk, December, 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at an air base; their job is to escort bombers over Germany. Each mission could be their last. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is a vivid...

"After six weeks in a nuclear submarine gathering computer data on Soviet activity, the mysterious, bespectacled spy known as Patrick Armstrong is desperate to return home. But when he arrives at his...

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 West. Bernard Samson, the former...

"In Deighton's best books--like this one--the narrative glides forward on rollers, and the scenes and characters fit perfectly into place. The result is marvellous." --The IndependentWhen the...

Bernard Samson suspects there is a traitor within his department of MI6. A jaded but highly skilled British intelligence agent nearing the end of his career, Samson already got KGB major Eric Stinnes...

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, in...

From internationally bestselling author who is "filling the gap left by Len Deighton and John le Carre" (Evening Standard) comes a propulsive espionage thriller for fans of Mick Herron, Daniel Silva,...

From internationally bestselling author who is "filling the gap left by Len Deighton and John le Carre" (Evening Standard) comes a propulsive espionage thriller for fans of Mick Herron, Daniel Silva,...