Deighton’s debut radically revamped the modern spy novel. The only other work that can stake such a claim is John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, which was published one year ...

Malcolm Gladwell on Len Deighton’s 1970 novel, which captured the aerial devastation of World War II.

Len Deighton: The spy and I His thrillers made Michael Caine a star, setting the template for his celebrated working-class-hero act. The veteran writer tells Robert Dawson Scott what happened next ...

Simon Beaufoy to Adapt Len Deighton’s Spy Novels for TV British producer Clerkenwell Films has inked a deal with the Oscar-winning writer of "Slumdog Millionaire" to bring the Bernard Samson ...

Len Deighton Collects Outdated Travel Guides “Old illustrated ones are critical for research,” says the author and spy novelist, four of whose early novels are being reissued this month.

Would best-selling novelist Len Deighton care to take a walk? It was 1968, and the IBM technician who serviced Deighton’s typewriters had just heard from Deighton’s personal assistant, Ms ...

Len Deighton is credited with creating the first known example of this broad genre. Yes, that Len Deighton, the prolific British spy novelist. In 1965, he published a collection of the black-and ...

Using a broad, dark canvas, Deighton ( The Ipcress File ; Spy Sinker ) follows the convoluted trails of diverse political interests converging in the South American jungle of Spanish Guiana, where ...

FAITH By Len Deighton (HarperCollins. $24) IT HAD BEEN FIVE years since Len Deighton apparently wearied of Bernard Samson, the beleaguered British agent, and Berlin, the setting for his fine Cold W… ...

Deighton is famously publicity-shy, and I did wonder whether getting to interview him would be what the acronym-loving secret service bureaucrats of his early spy novels would call a high D of C ...

When spy author Len Deighton wrote his first cookery book, in 1965, it caused quite a stink – literally.