• Len Deighton's Action Cook Book, the first of five cookery books he wrote. Other topics of non-fiction include military history. Many of Deighton's books...
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  • 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...
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    anti-hero protagonist of several films based on spy novels written by Len Deighton, in which the main character is an unnamed intelligence officer. For...
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  • instructions. They were invented by Len Deighton while studying at the Royal College of Art in the 1950s. Deighton, who is a keen cook, originally drew...
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  • Oh! What a Lovely War (category Works by Len Deighton)
    "Len Deighton: The spy and I". The Independent. London. 4 January 2006. Retrieved 8 August 2015. Scott, Robert Dawson (4 January 2006). "Len Deighton:...
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  • The Ipcress File (film) (category Films based on works by Len Deighton)
    Furie, from a screenplay by Bill Canaway and James Doran, based on Len Deighton's 1962 novel The IPCRESS File. It stars Michael Caine as Harry Palmer...
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  • XPD (category Novels by Len Deighton)
    XPD is a spy novel by Len Deighton, published in 1981, and set in 1979, roughly contemporaneous with the time it was written. It concerns a plan by a group...
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  • Berlin Game is a 1983 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the first novel in the first of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged intelligence...
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  • SS-GB (category Novels by Len Deighton)
    SS-GB is an alternative history novel by Len Deighton, set in a United Kingdom conquered and occupied by Germany during the Second World War. The novel's...
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  • Billion-Dollar Brain is a 1966 Cold War spy novel by Len Deighton. It was the fourth to feature an unnamed secret agent working for the British WOOC(P)...
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  • Bullet to Beijing (category Films based on works by Len Deighton)
    Brain, based on books by author Len Deighton. Though an alternative title is Len Deighton's Bullet to Beijing, Deighton was not associated with the film...
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  • is a 1964 spy novel by Len Deighton set between Saturday 5 October and Sunday 10 November 1963. It was the third of Deighton's novels about an unnamed...
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  • Horse Under Water (1963) is the second of several Len Deighton spy novels featuring an unnamed British intelligence officer. It was preceded by The IPCRESS...
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  • Billion Dollar Brain (category Films based on works by Len Deighton)
    directed by Ken Russell and based on the 1966 novel Billion-Dollar Brain by Len Deighton. The film features Michael Caine as secret agent Harry Palmer, the anti-hero...
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    The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick, SS-GB (1978) by Len Deighton, and Fatherland (1992) by Robert Harris. The stories deal with the politics...
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  • not permit Shaw to use real operational code names. In September 1967 Len Deighton wrote an article in The Sunday Times Magazine about Operation Snowdrop...
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  • Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain (category Books by Len Deighton)
    author Len Deighton. First published in 1977, it was Deighton's first history book although he had made his name as a writer of spy fiction. Deighton was...
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  • Hope is a 1995 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the second novel in the final trilogy of three about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence...
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  • The Ipcress File (TV series) (category Television shows based on works by Len Deighton)
    television series loosely based on the 1962 novel The IPCRESS File by Len Deighton. Written by John Hodge and directed by James Watkins, it stars Joe Cole...
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  • Winter is a 1987 novel by Len Deighton, which follows the lives of a German family from 1899 to 1945. At the same time the novel provides an historical...
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  • Spy Hook is a 1988 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the first novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded...
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  • The IPCRESS File is Len Deighton's first spy novel, published in 1962. The story involves Cold War brainwashing and includes scenes in Lebanon and on an...
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  • The Ipcress File may refer to: The IPCRESS File, spy novel by Len Deighton (1962) The Ipcress File (film), British spy film by Sidney J. Furie (1965) The...
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  • Spy Story is a 1974 spy novel by Len Deighton, which features minor characters from his earlier novels The IPCRESS File, Funeral in Berlin, Horse Under...
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    Stirling resigned as Chairman of the Society in 1959. In September 1967 Len Deighton wrote an article in The Sunday Times Magazine about Operation Snowdrop...
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  • Len Deighton's Action Cook Book is a 1965 collection of cookery strips (known as a cookstrip, an invention of Len Deighton's from his days as a student...
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    established in 1844 and have run uninterrupted since that time. In Len Deighton’s novel The Ipcress File (1962), the protagonist, (called Harry Palmer...
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  • footballer Jeremy Deighton (born 1988), American soccer player John Deighton (1830–1875), English Canadian bar owner Len Deighton (born 1929), British...
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    films, including works by John Buchan, le Carré, Ian Fleming (Bond) and Len Deighton. It is a significant aspect of British cinema, with leading British directors...
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  • Bernard Samson is a fictional character created by Len Deighton. Samson is a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the Secret...
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