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OverviewThe Cold War plays out in the shadow of the Second World War as old loyalties collide Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with a hero of the French resistance. Time to re-open the master file on yesterday's spy... Full Product DetailsAuthor: Len DeightonPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Classics Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.168kg ISBN: 9780241505571ISBN 10: 0241505577 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 30 September 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsTough, well-written and extremely readable. * Daily Mail * Len Deighton is the Flaubert of the contemporary thriller writers. -- Michael Howard * Times Literary Supplement * Splendid bluffs and lots of pleasing violence. * New Statesman * Splendid bluffs and lots of pleasing violence. * New Statesman * Len Deighton is the Flaubert of the contemporary thriller writers. -- Michael Howard * Times Literary Supplement * Tough, well-written and extremely readable. * Daily Mail * Author InformationLen Deighton was born in 1929 in London. He did his national service in the RAF, went to the Royal College of Art and designed many book jackets, including the original UK edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The enormous success of his first spy novel, The IPCRESS File (1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following decades. These varied from historical fiction (Bomber, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction (SS-GB) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War (Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly). His spy novels chart the twists and turns of Britain and the Cold War in ways which now give them a unique flavour. They preserve a world in which Europe contains many dictatorships, in which the personal can be ruined by the ideological and where the horrors of the Second World War are buried under only a very thin layer of soil. Deighton's fascination with technology, his sense of humour and his brilliant evocation of time and place make him one of the key British espionage writers, alongside John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |