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Leonard Cyril Deighton ( / ˈdeɪtən /; born 18 February 1929) is a British author. His publications have included cookery books and works on history, but he is best known for his spy novels .
Born Leonard Cyril Deighton on 18th February 1929, Len Deighton is a British novelist, military historian and graphic artist primarily known for ‘The IPCRESS File; a novel that was adapted into a movie (starring Michael Caine).
Len Deighton bibliography. Len Deighton (born 18 February 1929) is an English author known for his novels, works of military history, screenplays and cookery writing.
Len Deighton (born Feb. 18, 1929, Marylebone, London, Eng.) is an English author, journalist, film producer, and a leading writer of spy stories, his best-known being his first, The Ipcress File (1962), an account of deception and betrayal in an espionage agency.
On this site you'll find a full biography of Len Deighton along with images of the author from different periods of his life. As a reader of his books you'll also find out about his particular style of writing, some of the persistent themes found in the books, and how he regards his writing.
Oct 8, 2021 · Len Deighton: a taste for deception and self-delusion. Who needs Bond? The writer’s gritty, forward-looking cold war spy novels, now released as Penguin Modern Classics, captured the...
Following the success of his first novels, Deighton became The Observer's cookery writer and produced illustrated cookbooks. In September 1967 he wrote an article in the Sunday Times Magazine about Operation Snowdrop - an SAS attack on Benghazi during World War II.
Mar 21, 2022 · A trilogy of trilogies set in 1980s England featuring secret agent Sampson and his wife Fiona, this exceptional series cemented Deighton as one of the top spy novelists of his time. Here are all Len Deighton fiction books in order of publication.
Len Deighton has 170 books on Goodreads with 165891 ratings. Len Deighton’s most popular book is The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1).
Len Deighton was (almost) a smuggler. Employed as a steward by the BOAC airline, Len Deighton resigned in the summer of 1956, anticipating by a week his almost certain dismissal for an innocent involvement with a gold-smuggling organisation based in Hong Kong.
