Len Deighton is celebrated for his gripping spy thrillers, which often delve into the moral ambiguities and psychological depths of his characters. His writing is characterized by meticulously researched details and a realistic portrayal of the intelligence world, offering readers an authentic glimpse into espionage. Deighton crafts intricate plots with unexpected twists that keep readers on the edge of their seats. His work frequently draws on his own experiences and fascination with military history, lending his narratives an added layer of veracity and insight.
'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
"Berlin Game begins with a plea from a British agent stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and return home to the West. Bernard Samson, the former field agent now stationed behind a London desk, is tasked with the rescue. But before he even sets out on the mission, suspicions arise that there is a traitor among his colleagues in the KGB, likely one of his closest colleagues. The first in Deighton's acclaimed Game, Set, Match trilogy starring the talented-yet-jaded intelligence officer Bernard Samson, Berlin Game is a riveting story of betrayal and suspicion in the Second World War"--
The story of one Allied air raid over twenty-four hours remains one of the finest British war novels 31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget. Len Deighton's devastating novel is a gripping minute-by-minute account of what happens over the next twenty-four hours. Told through the eyes of ordinary people in the air and on the ground - from a young pilot to the inhabitants of a small town in the Ruhr - Bomber is an unforgettable portrayal of individuals caught up in the wreckage of war.
Spy Sinker is a 1990 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the final novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Spy Sinker is part of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, being preceded by Spy Hook and Spy Line. This trilogy is preceded by the Game, Set and Match trilogy and followed by the final Faith, Hope and Charity trilogy. Deighton's novel Winter (1987) is a prequel to the nine novels, covering the years 1900-1945 and providing the backstory to some of the characters.
Despite the volumes written about World War II, many questions remain un-answered. In this balanced and thoughtful chronicle, historian and World War II expert Len Deighton dares to explore intriguing questions, including why the British weren't more prepared for the Blitz and why Hitler failed to thoroughly support his U-boat program. He also warns that we haven't yet learned the lessons of World War II, as ethnic cleansing, Middle East violence, and the widening gap between rich and poor still plague the world.
It was the battle that proved Great Britain was a vital force in World War II. It inspired Churchill's immortal phrase, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Filled with illustrations and many never-before-published photographs, this work explodes the myths of the battle between Britain and Germany's Luftwaffe. HC: Random House. (Military History)
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
The Stunning Conclusion to the Bernard Samson Trilogy.
The third volume in the trilogy that began with FAITH and HOPE, in which Bernard Samson wonders how the Cold War will end for him and his family and whether he can continue to out-fox the upper-class desk pilots who have so cleverly dominated his life.
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.
Prime minister of the political thriller, Len Deighton is back in top form with the first of a new trilogy in the continuing saga of Bernard Samson, the intrepid, insolent, and enigmatic agent of Deighton's blockbuster series: the Game, Set, and Match and Hook, Line, and Sinker trilogies. In Faith Samson is beset. After her years on the "other side," his wife, Fiona, is finally back in his life. But the cool and sophisticated Fiona can't help but know about the affair with Gloria, an attractive coworker half Bernard's age. And Bernard has other troubles, like his secret orders to leave California for the grim streets of Magdeburg, where, hours after his arrival, he finds himself in a shootout with Stasi agents on a dark country road-another airtight mission down the drain. At the time of darkest danger, Bernard needs his best friend, Werner, but Werner is exiled and in disgrace.
