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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.
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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.
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).
Ernest Deighton (1889–1957), English flying ace; Jack Deighton, English footballer; Jeremy Deighton (born 1988), American soccer player; John Deighton (1830–1875), English Canadian bar owner; Len Deighton (born 1929), British author; Matt Deighton, singer-songwriter, member of Mother Earth; Michelle Deighton, model
Spy Hook is a 1988 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the first novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Spy Hook is part of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, being succeeded by Spy Line and Spy Sinker.
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).