XPD | Len Deighton

Leonard Cyril Deighton (18 February 1929 - ) is a British author, best known for his spy novels.

 

His first novel was “The Ipcress File”, published in 1962. The book was a best-seller in the UK, France and the US; the novel sold more than 2.5 million copies in three years.

 

A subsequent screenplay for a film called “The Ipcress File” was developed in 1965, starring British actor, Michael Caine as the central character, ‘Harry Palmer’.

 

A TV series was also adapted from the book in 2022.

 

Deighton wrote a number of other fiction and non-fiction books.

 

He published two fictional novels retaining the character, ‘Harry Palmer’, namely: “Horse Under Water” (1963) and “Funeral in Berlin” (1964).

 

Deighton also published the following fictional books:

• “Billion-Dollar Brain” (1966);
• “An Expensive Place to Die” (1967);
• “Only When I Laugh” (1967)
• “Bomber” (1971)
• “Close-Up” (1972)
• “Spy Story” (1974)
• “Yesterday’s Spy” (1975)
• “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Spy / Catch a Falling Spy” (1976)
• “SS-GB” (1978)
• “XPD” (1981)
• “Goodbye, Mickey Mouse” (1982)
• “MAMista” (1991)
• “City of Gold” (1992)
• “Violent Ward” (1993)

Deighton wrote three connected trilogies:

• Berlin Game (1983), Mexico Set (1984) and London Match (1985);
• Spy Hook (1988), Spy Line (1989) and Spy Sinker (1990); and
• Faith (1994), Hope (1995) and Charity (1996); and

Winter (a Berlin Family), a companion novel (written in 1987).

 

The trilogies are centred on the character “Bernard Samson”, an MI6 intelligence officer.

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