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Len Deighton
A chilling alternative history in which the Nazis have conquered Britain, now in the iconic Penguin Crime series
It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied…
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"In Deighton's best books--like this one--the narrative glides forward on rollers, and the scenes and characters fit perfectly into place. The result is marvellous." --The Independent
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'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…
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'The poet of the spy story' Sunday Times
A sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War - until now. Inside its rusting…
'Len Deighton's spy novels are so good they make me sad the Cold War is over' Malcolm Gladwell
After six weeks in a nuclear submarine gathering computer data on Soviet…
'The master at his peak' Daily Telegraph
A Russian scientist is defecting to the West, in order to realize his dreams of contacting extra-terrestrial life among the stars. But when…
'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…
'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…
An unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File - is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but…
If America is a lunatic asylum, then California is the Violent Ward.
A compelling history of Blitzkrieg: the ‘lightning war’ by which Hitler and his generals overwhelmed the Allied armies in Western Europe.
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Events relating to the last flight of an RAF Bomber over Germany on the night of June 31st, 1943.
Len Deighton’s classic first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy - later christened Harry Palmer and made famous worldwide in the iconic 1960s film starring Michael Caine.
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"Spy Line is vigorous and sleazy, psychologically complex and action-packed. And it is always exciting." --Daily Mail
Bernard Samson is a spy on the run, forced to abandon his life…
"Deighton writes with effortless mastery." --Wall Street Journal
Bernard Samson's wife, Fiona, has just been chosen by the British Secret Service to be their top agent in Germany, set to…
Long-awaited reissue of the final part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.
A ferociously cool Cold War thriller from the author of The Ipcress File.
"As fresh and brisk as ever . . . a feast to be wallowed in."-- Sunday Express
In Len Deighton's second novel of the classic spy trilogy, Faith, Hope, Charity…
"Bernard Samson is tormented. After years on the "other side," his wife, Fiona, is finally back in his life. Cool and sophisticated, Fiona doesn't know that she finds Bernard caught…
"A stunning spy story... incomparable." - The Guardian
It's 1979, and a group of former SS officers are devising a plan to seize power in West Germany. XPD is a…
'The master of espionage writing at his brilliant best." - Mail on Sunday
Bernard Samson is still tormented by the mystery surrounding the cold-blooded murder of his sister-in-law, Tessa, on…
Norfolk, December, 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at an air base; their job is to escort bombers over Germany. Each mission could be their last. Goodbye…
A collection of thirteen stories that offer an inside view of fighting men poised at the edge of death. Includes a new fourteenth story which appears here for the very…
In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall…
The long-awaited reissue of the second part of the classic spy trilogy, HOOK, LINE and SINKER, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.
June 11, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill?
Copyright A 1978 by Pluriform Publishing Company BV; Afterword copyright A 2009 by Pluriform Publishing Company BV; This edition first published in 2021 by Penguin Classics.
Deep in Marxist Guerilla territory a hopeless war is being fought.
Len Deighton - one of the masters of twentieth-century espionage fiction -- combines his expertise as both historian and novelist in Bomber, the classic World War II novel that relates…
Summer, 1940: western Europe has been conquered, and all that stands between Hitler and the invasion of England is the matter of air supremacy. And the RAF…
A Len Deighton story of three international confidence tricksters which was made into a film starring David Hemmings, Richard Attenborough and Alexandra Stewart. The three over-confident professionals are coolly and…
Deighton’s incendiary novel of the film industry back in print after 20 years. A Hollywood Babylon for our time.
The classic spy thriller of lethal computer-age intrigue and a maniac’s private cold war, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of The IPCRESS File.
A magisterial history of the Second World War by best-selling novelist and former RAF pilot Len Deighton
This unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers…
The dead hand of a long-defeated Nazi Third Reich reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech in Deighton’s second novel, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of The IPCRESS…
Bestselling author Len Deighton probes behind the scenes of World War II, revealing shocking truths about the poor planning, machinery, and performances of both sides–and how this affected the war…
Long-awaited reissue of the first part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.
"Deighton, Greene and John le Carre comprise the reigning triumvirate of fictional spymasters beside whom all others pale."--Seattle Times
In 1963, Berlin is dark and dangerous. Len Deighton's skilled, jaded…
When disaffected KGB major Erich Stinnes is spotted in Mexico City, British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice him to take the final step and defect. With his domestic life…
"The spy who's in the clear doesn't exist. Bernard Samson hoped they'd put British KGB agent Elvira Miller behind bars. She'd made a sweeping confession, but there was one troubling…
