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Len Deighton
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71 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1993–2026.
'For sheer readability he has no peer' Evening Standard Paris in the 1960's caters for every taste, and nowhere more than at the private 'clinic' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch, which supplies psychedelic drugs and sexual favours to the city's elite - all the while secretly filming guests in order to blackmail them. Into this decadent underworld steps a bespectacled British spy. Sent on what seems like a simple mission, he soon finds himself playing a game where the rules are unknown - and even victory could be fatal. 'Take this excellent thriller at a single gulp' Sunday TimesA PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL
'Deighton at his best' Evening Standard Steve Champion - flamboyant businessman, former leader of an anti-Nazi network in the Second World War - is a man surrounded by mysteries. There are rumours he is still in the spying business. And suspicions that his fortune may be built on something nefarious; something he'd rather stayed secret. The Department are nervous, so Champion's oldest wartime ally is sent to the South of France to investigate. It's time to re-open the file on yesterday's spy, whatever the consequences. 'Tough, well-written and extremely readable' Daily MailA PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL
'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.
Cinema history was made with the release of Dr. No in 1962. Sean Connery became the face of the suave secret agent 007, and one of film’s most iconic franchises was born. How different might that history have been if, instead, Thunderball was the first Bond film to be released, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Richard Burton as James Bond? It seems absurd, but it almost happened. The Battle for Bond unravels this most controversial part of the James Bond legend using letters and private documents to recount a story in which Ian Fleming found himself in the dock accused of plagiarism, and the events threatened to turn the James Bond film-making world upside down. It is a tale of bitter recriminations, betrayal, multimillion-dollar lawsuits and even death. Regarded within the Bond fan community as one of the most important books ever written about 007, The Battle for Bond was the subject of controversial litigation when it was first published in 2007, and was, for a time, banned in Britain. With this new edition, Robert Sellers revives this fascinating chapter in film history, warts and all.
'A stunning spy story ... incomparable' GuardianIt is the most dangerous secret of the Second World War, one that could destroy Britain's reputation forever. In 1940, a clandestine meeting took place between Churchill and Adolf Hitler. All records of it have been hidden, and anyone who discovers the truth dies - their file stamped XPD; Expedient Demise. But now what was buried is threatening to come to light, and SIS agent Boyd Stuart must stop it falling into the wrong hands, no matter how high the price. 'Deliciously sharp and flawlessly accurate dialogue, breathtakingly clever plotting ... a splendidly strongly told story' The Times
'The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world' The TimesDecember 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over Germany, and each mission could be their last. Among them are cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed 'Mickey Mouse'), who is almost on his way to becoming a Flying Ace, and reserved Captain Jamie Farebrother, who is starting to fall in love with an English woman. All they have in common is their courage - until the day their lives converge in ways they could never have imagined. 'Truly astonishing in its recreation of a time and place ... it is a novel of memory, satisfying on every imaginable level' Washington Post
Funeral in Berlin
Len Deighton
GROVE PRESS / ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
2023
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Len Deighton -- one of the masters of twentieth-centuryespionage fiction -- combines his expertise as both historian and novelist in Bomber, the classic World War II novel that relates, in devastating detail, thetwenty-four-hour story of an allied bombing raid. Skilled Royal Air Force bomber pilot Sam Lambert isexhausted, and his veteran crewmen have just been replaced by an inexperiencednew team. Victor von L wenherz, a German night fighter pilot who intercepts RAFbombers in his Junkers Ju 88, looks on with horror at the Nazi regime. AndHansl, a German boy in the small market town of Altgarten, sleeps at home. Lambertand his crew prepare for a bombing raid on the Ruhr area. It's a night thatmany will never forget. Bomber is a masterful, gripping, minute-by-minuteaccount of what occurs over the next twenty-four hours. Told through the eyesof protag-onists on all sides and astonishingly precise in its depictions ofplanes, weapons, and behind-the-scenes war strategy, this is Len Deighton athis best. An unforgettable portrait of war, both in the air and on the ground.
Bernard Samson suspects there is a traitor within hisdepartment of MI6. A jaded but highly skilled British intelligence agentnearing the end of his career, Samson already got KGB major Eric Stinnes to defect. But when a British KGB agent makes a sweeping confession with a suspiciousundertone, the finger points straight back to London--where Stinnes is lockedup, refusing to talk. The spy who's in the clear doesn't exist. In the spec-tacularthird novel in Len Deighton's Game, Set, Match trilogy, will Samson makethe winning move?
When disaffected KGB major Erich Stinnes is spotted inMexico City, British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice him to takethe final step and defect. With his domestic life a shambles and his careerheading towards disaster, Bernard needs to prove his re-liability. And he knowsStinnes already: Bernard had been interrogated by him in East Berlin. But now, Bernard risks being entangled in a lethal web of old loyalties and oldbetrayals. All he knows for sure is that he has to get Stinnes forLondon. Who's pulling the strings is another matter.
The Ipcress File
Len Deighton
GROVE PRESS / ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
2023
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A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secretBritish intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton's iconic unnamedprotagonist--later christened Harry Palmer--to find out why. His search begins ina grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he endsup amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turnsinto something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton'ssensational debut and first bestseller The IPCRESS File broke the moldof thriller writing and became the defining novel of 1960s London.
*NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES*A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton's sensational debut The Ipcress File rewrote the spy thriller and became the defining novel of 1960's London.'Changed the shape of the espionage thriller ... there is an infectious energy about this book which makes it a joy to read' Daily Telegraph