British producer Clerkenwell Films has inked a deal with the Oscar-winning writer of "Slumdog Millionaire" to bring the Bernard Samson character to the small screen. By Stuart Kemp Simon Beaufoy - P ...

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 later in ...

Len Deighton, in his first-person, hero-as-narrator style, has a marvelous knack for keeping you on edge, feeling always as if something is about to happen. Unfortunately, he keeps you feeling that ...

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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-white ...

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 War thrillers. So, a quick recap before ...

The great era of the spy novel was the 1970's and '80s, and the three masters of the genre were all British: John le Carré, Ian Fleming and Len Deighton. Fleming arguably was in a genre all by himself ...

Quentin Tarantino has admitted that he has thought about adapting Len Deighton books into a film series. The Inglourious Basterds director said that he is a fan of the author's spy novels and would ...

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The man is as rugged as he is handsome, the very essence of male virility. He stares straight into the camera, eyebrows raised with studied insouciance. A pistol-filled holster is slung over his ...