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Leonard Cyril Deighton was born in Marylebone, London, on 18 February 1929. [1] [2] His birth was in the infirmary of a workhouse as the local hospital was full. [3]His father was the chauffeur and mechanic for Campbell Dodgson, the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum; Deighton's mother was a part-time cook.
In common with several of Deighton's other early novels, the chapter headings have a running theme. In Horse Under Water these are crossword puzzle clues, reflecting the protagonist's habit of endlessly writing and replacing words in crossword puzzles.
Len Deighton (born 18 February 1929) is an English author known for his novels, works of military history, screenplays and cookery writing.He has had a varied career, including as a pastry cook, waiter, co-editor of a magazine, teacher and air steward before writing his first novel in 1962: The IPCRESS File.
Funeral in Berlin is a 1964 spy novel by Len Deighton set between Saturday 5 October and Sunday 10 November 1963. It was the third of Deighton's novels about an unnamed British agent. It was preceded by The IPCRESS File (1962) and Horse Under Water (1963), and followed by Billion-Dollar Brain (1966).
XPD is a spy novel by Len Deighton, published in 1981, and set in 1979, roughly contemporaneous with the time it was written. [1]It concerns a plan by a group of former SS officers to seize power in West Germany, in which they intend to publish some wartime documents about a (fictional) secret meeting between Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler in June 1940, and the efforts of a British agent ...
Spy Line is a 1989 spy novel written by British writer Len Deighton.It is the second novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, [1] a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
The novel takes the form of the unnamed protagonist's personal report to the Minister of Defence, thus becoming the 'IPCRESS File' of the title.Events begin soon after the protagonist's transfer from military intelligence to WOOC(P), a small civilian intelligence agency reporting directly to the British Cabinet, where he works under the command of a man named Dalby.
This category consists of articles on the literary creations of the English novelist Len Deighton, including film adaptations and other related subjects. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.