About the Author

Len 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, charting the twists and turns of British history and the Cold War.

Reviews

Len Deighton is the Flaubert of the contemporary thriller writers.
*Times Literary Supplement*

Deighton's best book ... an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation.
*New York Times Book Review*

Horrifyingly plausible.
*The Independent*

They don't, as they say, write them like this anymore. You will be entertained, informed, thrilled and dazzled. Long may he, and his creations, live on.
*The Guardian*