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. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness.

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 ...

Len Deighton, Author Alfred A. Knopf $19.95 (571p) ISBN 978-0-394-55177-7. Modern history and suspenseful fiction are here brilliantly combined by a master of both.

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 ...

LONDON – Oscar-winning writer Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) is set to turn his hand to adapting for television Len Deighton’s classic Cold War novels featuring iconic spy Bernard Samson.

When spy author Len Deighton wrote his first cookery book, in 1965, it caused quite a stink – literally. Forty-five years later, the book that introduced legions of young British men in the ...

Len Deighton talks to Jake Kerridge about his career By Jake Kerridge 18 February 2009 • 7:00am ‘When I wrote The Ipcress File I didn’t want to be a writer at all.

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 ...

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… ...

Len Deighton Collects Outdated Travel Guides “Old illustrated ones are critical for research,” says the author and spy novelist, four of whose early novels are being reissued this month.