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Deighton's work has been acknowledged by the thriller writer Jeremy Duns as being an influence on his own work. [85] In Letters from Burma , the politician Aung San Suu Kyi mentions reading Deighton's books, while under house arrest .
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.
Deighton is better at plots and settings than he is at people. But the plots are marvelous and the settings alone are worth the price of admission." [8] Gene Lyons, writing in The New York Times Book Review noted that Deighton's success as a writer of spy thrillers "has always rested on his recognition of the humorous possibilities of the form ...
This is a list of thriller or suspense novelists. Note that some of these may overlap with authors of crime , mystery or spy fiction . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Spy Sinker is a 1990 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the final 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 Sinker is part of the Hook, Line and Sinker trilogy, being preceded by Spy Hook and Spy Line.
Henry Patterson, known to the public under his pseudonym Jack Higgins, published 85 books during his lifetime.
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).
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 ...