Len Deighton Books

This compelling autobiography offers a dramatic description of one man's truly extraordinary life. It radiates outwards from the Second World War in which Dutchman Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema served as a secret agent with the Special Operations Executive, a bomber pilot with the RAF's elite Pathfinder Force, and after receiving the Dutch equivalent of the Victoria Cross, as aide and confidante to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. His adventures after the war were no less turbulent and spanned the globe - from sales clerk and actor in Hollywood to blockade runner off New Guinea; vice-president of NBC to bum in New York's Central Park; Director of Radio Free Europe for the CIA to oil prospector in Israel - and above all, a writer.

A myth-busting, page-turning history of the Battle of Britain History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton drew on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these myths and point towards a more objective, and even more inspiring, truth.

'I am going to cook you the best meal you have ever tasted in your life...' Harry Palmer to Sue Lloyd in `The Ipcress Files''Len was a great cook, a smashing cook. I learned a lot about food from playing Harry Palmer' Michael Caine

Set during a pivotal bombing raid over Germany in 1943, the narrative unfolds over a tense twenty-four hours, capturing the harrowing experiences of an RAF bomber crew, a Luftwaffe night fighter pilot, and a young German boy. Through their intertwined perspectives, the story offers a profound exploration of the realities of war, highlighting the emotional and psychological impacts on individuals across both sides of the conflict. This unique approach provides an intimate and multifaceted portrayal of the chaos of wartime.

This unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the Atlantic to Pearl Harbor. Rooted in the personal accounts of the soldiers themselves, Blood, Tears and Folly is a sweeping, moving account of the political machinations, the strategy and tactics, the weapons and the men on both sides who created a world of devastation.

The prelude to the classic spy trilogy, Game, Set and Match, that follows the fortunes of a German dynasty during two world wars. Winter takes us into a large and complex family drama, into the lives of two German brothers - both born close upon the turn of the century, both so caught up in the currents of history that their story is one with the story of their country, from the Kaiser's heyday through Hitler's rise and fall. A novel that rings powerfully true, a rich and remarkable portrait of Germany in the first half of the twentieth century

For Bernard Samson, the end is near.In the concluding volume of Len Deighton's superb trilogy that began with Faith and Hope, Bernard Samson continues to peel away the mystery surrounding the cold-blooded murder of his sister-in-law, Tessa, on the streets of Berlin. Although his wife, Fiona, has come back from the cold and is now in the West, his family is in tatters, and Samson has no where to turn for answers. Only his childhood friend Werner Volkman seems to offer the charity that Samson craves, but Volkmann is reluctant to get involved with any quest for the truth, no matter who is doing the asking. And as always, hovering above all Samson does and tries to be is the persistent memory of his father -- a deadly force to be reckoned with, even now.Deighton's back and better than ever. Packed with action, incident and intrigue, Charity brings to a triumphant conclusion a series of 10 novels that represents one of the greatest achievements in modern fiction.

Bernard Sampson, survivor and spy epy extraordinaire, the star of Len Deighton's two previous bestselling trilogies--Game, Set and Match and Spy Hook, Spy Line and Spy Sinker--is back in the dazzling new series: Faith, Hope and Charity. Using as a backdrop the months before the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Eastern Bloc dissolved, Deighton vividly paints the shadowy world of spies and moles, agents and double agents pitted in which physical violence is only the beginning.

Takes up the story where the "Hook, Line and Sinker" trilogy ended. It is 1987 and Bernard has flown from California to Magdeburg and the guarded sanctum of the secret police apparatus. He soon he finds himself in a shoot-out with Stasi agents on a dark country road in East Germany.

Now on the shadowy East-West battlefield of Mexico City. British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice his opposite number, a disaffected KGB major, to take the final, dramatic step -- and defect. But the price of one Russian's freedom must be paid in blood -- blood that Samson unexpectedly and incriminatingly finds on his own hands. On every side, he becomes dangerously enmeshed in an intricate web of suspicion and hatred. Yet how can he fight when he doesn't know where to find his most determined enemies -- or even who they are? Berlin Game, Mexico Set, London Match: Three spectacular thrillers featuring agent Bernard Samson.

Len Deighton brings to bear all the skills of a best-selling novelist in this compelling study.In Blitzkrieg, Len Deighton turns a searchlight on the rise of Hitler, the lightning dash of his armies to the Channel coast in 1940 and on the debacle of Dunkirk, where — in a mistake that was to trigger his eventual downfall — a quarter of a million British troops were allowed to escape.

With treason epidemic in London Central, a cloud of suspicion passes over each senior agent, and each falls helplessly into Moscow Centre's brilliant, complex trap. As LONDON MATCH rushes toward its amazing climax, the ultimate, decisive confrontation is about to take place--between Samson and the British KGB agent who, from the very beginning, has held Samson's entire life in delicate balance.

A continuing story of the British agent Bernard Samson. In Spy Hook he meddled when he was instructed to steer clear, and now he is suffering the consequences. Hiding out in Berlin, he is surprised to learn he may return to London and all charges will be dropped. However, there are strings attached to this offer.

Sinister rumors link clandestine Arab arms dealing with the man who led the old anti-Nazi Guernica network. It's time to re-open the master file on yesterday's spy...

The first novel of the trilogy introducing Bernard Samson and the rest of the bickering, in-fighting intelligence community in which he is a much put-upon member. After five years of desk work, Bernie finds himself ordered back into the field.

A ferociously cool Cold War thriller from the author of The Ipcress File. Len Deighton's third novel has become a classic, as compelling and suspenseful now as when it first exploded on to the bestseller lists. In Berlin, where neither side of the wall is safe, Colonel Stok of Red Army Security is prepared to sell an important Russian scientist to the West - for a price. British intelligence are willing to pay, providing their own top secret agent is in Berlin to act as go-between. But it soon becomes apparent that behind the facade of an elaborate mock funeral lies a game of deadly manoeuvres and ruthless tactics. A game in which the blood-stained legacy of Nazi Germany is enmeshed in the intricate moves of cold war espionage...

The third novel in Deighton's Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy. Spanning a ten year period (1977-87), Deighton solves the mystery of Fiona's defection - was she a Soviet spy or wasn't she? He also retells some of the events from the Game, Set and Match trilogy from Fiona's point of view.

A novel about a group of American fighter pilots flying escort missions over Germany in the winter of 1943-4. The story centres on two young men who forge a bond of friendship in battle, with far-reaching consequences for themselves, and for the future of those they love.

Deighton draws on his personal experience of the cut-throat Hollywood film industry in this dark and compelling thriller Deighton's incendiary novel of the film industry uncovers a Hollywood Babylon for our time. Marshall Stone, international superstar and charismatic member of Hollywood's elite. Abundantly blessed with charm, genius and wealth, the one gift he most desires - everlasting youth - seems within his grasp when an eminent writer begins the star's biography. But painful memories and suppressed scandals threaten to expose the fiction of his life. Dazzled by flattery and numbed by threats, the biographer is caught up in the big-daddy world where books are properties, films are investments, ratings are rigged, and stars and directors are bought and sold like slaves at an auction. The rituals, the wheeler-dealing politics, and back-stabbing tactics of the richest industry in the world have never been more effectively portrayed. And at the heart of this glittering machine, a brilliant star who will do almost anything to remain untarnished.

US Secret Service high-up Colonel Mann is the main foil to the British agent in this story, which is set in the Arab world and the wastes of the north African Sahara desert, where our hero is sent to take custody of a defecting Russian scientist, Professor Bekuv. The narrator is unnamed. Things don’t go according to plan in this story. Loyalty is tested and never certain, as it becomes unclear as the novel develops who is actually chasing whom, and where the threat is coming from.

Here in the Horse underwater, skin-diving, drug trafficking and blackmail all feature in a curious story in which the dead hand of a long-defeated Hitler-Germany reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech, and to all the neo-Nazis of today.

A hard-boiled Los Angeles criminal lawyer copes with a son in trouble, a passion for his biggest client's wife, and cops who want to pin a murder on him.

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. Working for the Department was like marriage is supposed to be - ''til death do us part' - but the Department is really not like that; and neither are many marriages, including that of Bernard Samson. The cool and cynical field agent of the GAME, SET and MATCH trilogy has grown older and wiser. But things have not gone well for Samson: old pals are not as friendly as they used to be and colleagues are less confiding than they once were. Now, starting with his mission to Washington, life has become even more precarious for Bernard. Ignoring all warnings, friendly, devious and otherwise, he pursues his own investigation and, in California, meets with the biggest surprise of his life…

This novel is constructed around the supposition that Winston Churchill secretly met with Adolf Hitler in 1940 to discuss the terms of a British surrender. Forty years later, Hitler's personal minutes of the discussions are threatening to surface.

A classic Cold War thriller featuring computer hacking, nuclear submarines and violence on the Arctic ice 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 reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File - is sent to investigate. Patrick Armstrong is a tough, dedicated agent and war-games player. But in Armstrong's violent, complex world, war-games are all too often played for real. Soon the chase (or is it escape?) is on. From the secretive computerized college of war studies in London via a bleak, sinister Scottish redoubt to the Arctic ice cap where nuclear submarines prowl ominously beneath frozen wastes, a lethal web of violence and double-cross is woven. And Europe's whole future hangs by a deadly thread... Spy Story is the most authentic and brilliant novel of espionage yet from the world's greatest writer of spy thrillers.

'Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times 'Worth of Raymond Chandler ... intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining' Sunday Telegraph Texan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The fourth and final novel featuring the cynical, insolent narrator of The IPCRESS File sees him sent from his shabby Soho office to bone-freezing Helsinki in order to penetrate Midwinter's vast anti-Communist network - and stop a deadly virus from wiping out the planet.

Briefly recounts the Legion's battles and campaigns, looks at the training and daily life of modern legionnaires, and explains why the Legion was founded

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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 soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackmail and hidden motive, where friend and enemy become indistinguishable.

The three confidence tricksters - two blokes and a bird - had a style that earned them millions. Silas was the leader, slick and self-assured -- but dissatisfied. Bob was the junior partner, longing for the open road where pickings were rich and the living was easy. And Liz, Silas' mistress, was! in between. Theirs was a built-in love triangle with its own rewards! and its own dangers. In New York these con-artists do a 'business deal' worth millions. But back in London Silas' plan to bilk an emergent African nation misfires. Then Bob takes over the running of the operation -- and Liz. A Beirut bank is their target and each member of the trio gets what he or she deserves -- each with a twist of lemon.

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. The Ipcress File was not only Len Deighton s first novel, it was his first bestseller and the book that broke the mould of thriller writing. For the working class narrator, an apparently straightforward mission to find a missing biochemist becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy. The film of The Ipcress File gave Michael Caine one of his first and still most celebrated starring roles, while the novel itself has become a classic."

In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehallâe¦ For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, itâe(tm)s âe~business as usualâe(tm) at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on. But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself caught up in a high level, all action, espionage battle. This is a spy story quite different from any other. Only Deighton, with his flair for historical research and his narrative genius, could have written it.

January 1942. Rommel’s seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gates of Egypt – perhaps soon to threaten Cairo itself. And Rommel has a spy in the city – a source so well-informed that the German commander knows in advance every movement of the allied forces. Amongst the teeming streets and bazaars, the British, led by Major Albert Cutler, must find him. But Cairo is a city of fool’s gold, where nothing and nobody, not even Cutler, can be taken at face value… This new reissue includes a foreword from the cover designer, Oscar-winning filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman, and a brand new introduction by Len Deighton, which offers a fascinating insight into the writing of the story.

A group of Marxist revolutionaries try to take over a South American country led by a drug industry.

A non-fiction book detailing the sights of London.

Der klassische Thriller einer tödlichen Computerära und dem privaten Kalten Krieg eines Wahnsinnigen… General Midwinter liebt sein Land und hasst den Kommunismus. Um den sowjetischen Machtblock zu destabilisieren, leitet er seine eigene Geheimdienstagentur, deren „Gehirn“ der größte Supercomputer der Welt ist. Als seine Vergangenheit ihn einholt, wird der namenlose Agent aus „The Ipcress File“ nach Finnland geschickt, um Midwinters Spionagezelle zu infiltrieren. Doch dann wird ein tödlicher Virus gestohlen, und unser Held muss verhindern, dass er in die Hände der Russen und des milliardenschweren Wahnsinnigen fällt.

El agente británico Bernard Samson descubre pruebas contundentes de que hay otro traidor en las altas esferas de la inteligencia británica y se enfrenta directamente a este agente del KGB británico.

Der klassische Thriller über ein tödliches Computerzeitalter und den privaten Kalten Krieg eines Wahnsinnigen… General Midwinter liebt sein Land und hasst den Kommunismus. Um den sowjetischen Machtblock zu destabilisieren, leitet er seine eigene Geheimdienstagentur, deren „Gehirn“ der größte Supercomputer der Welt ist. Als seine Vergangenheit ihn einholt, wird der namenlose Agent aus „The Ipcress File“ nach Finnland geschickt, um Midwinters Spionagezelle zu infiltrieren. Doch dann wird ein tödlicher Virus gestohlen, und unser Held muss verhindern, dass er in die Hände der Russen und des milliardenschweren Wahnsinnigen fällt.

Bernie Sampson, ehemaliger Feldagent und jetzt Büroangestellter im Geheimdienst, wird auf eine aussichtslose Mission geschickt, um herauszufinden, ob ein alter Kollege Geld aus der Firma entwendet hat. Doch bevor er ihn konfrontieren kann, wird dieser getötet, und Bernie entdeckt, dass es nicht nur um etwas Bargeld ging, sondern um einige Millionen Pfund!

Sinistre Gerüchte verbinden geheime arabische Waffenverkäufe mit dem Mann, der das alte anti-nazistische Guernica-Netzwerk leitete. Es ist an der Zeit, die Hauptakte über den Spion von gestern wieder zu öffnen.

Nahaufnahme - bk226; Heyne Verlag; Len Deighton; pocket_book; 1991

Een Britse geheim agent, wiens echtgenote naar de Russische inlichtingendienst is overgelopen, weet een gedeserteerde Russische spion naar Londen te brengen, hetgeen daar grote onrust teweeg brengt.

De moeilijkheden, die een biograaf ondervindt bij het beschrijven van het leven van een wereldberoemd acteur en van de waarheid achter het glamour-masker.

Leden 1942. Rommelův zdánlivě neporazitelný Afrika Korps stojí před branami Egypta, brzy bude ohrožena sama Káhira. Rommel má ve městě špióna – tak dobře informovaný pramen, že německý velitel ví o každém pohybu Spojenců ještě dřív, než k němu dojde. Britové ho pod vedením majora Alberta Cutlera musí odhalit co nejdříve. Káhira je však město kočičího zlata, kde se nelze spolehnout na pravost ničeho, dokonce ani Cutlera samého......

Román o bombardéru, pilotech a bombardovací peruti. Jde o fiktivní dílo, psané jako skutečné události o bombardování území obsazeného Hitlerovým Německem.