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Len Deighton -- one of the masters of twentieth-centuryespionage fiction -- combines his expertise as both historian and novelist in Bomber, the classic World War II novel that relates, in devastating detail, thetwenty-four-hour story of an allied bombing raid. Skilled Royal Air Force bomber pilot ... Read More about Bomber

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. But before he even sets out on the m... Read More about Berlin Game: A Bernard Sampson Novel (Bernard Samson #1)

A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secretBritish intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton's iconic unnamedprotagonist--later christened Harry Palmer--to find out why. His search begins ina grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he endsup amongst th... Read More about The Ipcress File

"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 ReviewIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotla... Read More about Ss-GB

"Deighton, Greene and John le Carr comprise the reigning triumvirate of fictional spymasters beside whom all others pale."--Seattle Times In 1963, Berlin is dark and dangerous. Len Deighton's skilled, jaded, anony-mous hero of The IPCRESS File is now set to arrange the defection--and fake the death... Read More about Funeral in Berlin

When disaffected KGB major Erich Stinnes is spotted inMexico City, British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice him to takethe final step and defect. With his domestic life in shambles and his careerheading towards disaster, Bernard needs to prove his re-liability. And he knowsStinnes alrea... Read More about Mexico Set: A Bernard Sampson Novel (Bernard Samson #2)