Len Deighton

Bernard Samson suspects there is a traitor within his department of MI6. A jaded but highly skilled British intelligence agent nearing the end of his career, Samson already got KGB major Eric Stinnes to defect....

"Deighton's best book . . . an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation."—The New York Times Book Review It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At...

In Len Deighton's second novel of the classic spy trilogy, Faith, Hope, Charity, Bernard Samson is trying to readjust his life after his wife, Fiona, defected to the East. As the Berlin Wall begins to crumble, loyalties seem to change along with the freezing wind. Caught between his job and his...

Berlin Game begins with a plea from “Brahms Four,” one of Britain’s most valuable agents stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and come to the West. Bernard Samson, the former field agent now stationed in London, is tasked with the rescue....

In 1987, as the Cold War reaches a climax, British agent Bernard Samson confronts difficulties at home and on the job as he copes with an affair with a coworker, his wife, ethical conflict, and high-level government scandal...

"What raises Deighton's genre to art is not only his absorbing characters but his metaphoric grace, droll wit, command of technical detail . . . and sure sense of place." -Washington Post Peter and Paul Winter, sons of a German businessman, are bonded by childhood trauma. When they grow apart...

What kind of woman would leave her husband, her children, and her home to live behind the Iron Curtain and work for the KGB? From the brilliant Oxford graduate who understands the espionage game better than her male colleagues, to the beguiling woman who uses her charm and brains to deceive...

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 in shambles and his career heading towards disaster, Bernard needs to prove his re­liability....

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, in devastating detail, the twenty-four-hour story of an allied bombing raid....

A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton’s iconic unnamed protagonist—later christened Harry Palmer—to find out why. His search begins in a grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world....

Bernard Samson is a spy on the run, forced to abandon his life and job and plunge into hiding. But in the murky, dangerous streets of Berlin, he knows where to hide. Wanted for an act of treachery he has not committed, he must not only escape the grasp of London Central, but get to the bottom of...

January 1942. Rommel's seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gates of Egypt—perhaps soon to threaten Cairo itself. And Rommel has a spy in the city—a source so well-informed that the German commander knows in advance every movement of the allied forces. Amongst the teeming streets and...

"The master of espionage writing at his brilliant best" -Mail on Sunday With the Cold War drawing to a close in the East, Bernard Samson is still haunted by the events that have turned his life upside down over the last ten years. But when he takes a train from Moscow to Berlin, he stumbles...

"What Deighton did for the Battle of Britain in Fighter he has done for the land-war here . . . A rattlingly good yarn." —Guardian This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and "lightning-fast war", to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance...

Marshall Stone is an international superstar and charismatic member of Hollywood's elite. Abundantly blessed with charm, genius, and wealth, the one gift he most desires—everlasting youth—seems within his grasp when an eminent writer begins the star's biography. But painful memories and...