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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.
1 de ene. de 1970 · Len Deighton’s novel casts a cold eye on the event, tending towards the ‘Genghis Khan’ view of things. The epigraph to Bomber starkly records the vast quantity of ordnance that was being dropped on North Vietnam at the time Deighton was writing. Bomber’s narrative is ‘circadian’ – one day and night in June 1943.
Len Deighton is known primarily as a thriller and spy fiction novelist and this site has a page devoted to all of his fiction works. There are dedicated pages covering his non-fiction books, his food & cooking books, and a section on books to which Deighton has contributed in some way, such as through a foreword or introduction, or which feature him heavily.
Len Deighton's led a fascinating and full life and it's clearly influenced his writing. Immensely private, he has let his books and his ideas speak for him to the British public and readers further afield, on the whole. Find out more about the man behind the classic books and how his career as a writer has now spanned six decades. A QUOTABLE MAN.
His career started with a brand new type of spy fiction and went on from there. It is stories like The Ipcress File, Yesterday's Spy, Winter and Berlin Game for which Len Deighton has become world-renowned and it is through his fiction that most readers will be aware of the author. His plots, characters, dialogue and innovation in story telling, particularly in the spy genre, have put Len ...
EAN: 9788401490620 Tipo: Libros Título: Juegos de Guerra Autor: Len Deighton| Plaza & Janés Editorial: Plaza & Janés - Los Jet; Primera edición (1 enero 1985) Idioma: ES Páginas: 255 Formato: Tapa blanda Peso: 159 Año de publicación: 1985. Nº de ref. del artículo: Happ-2022-10-18-716aefa8. Más información sobre este vendedor ...
Deighton left England in 1969. He briefly resided in Blackrock, County Louth in Ireland. He has not returned to England apart from some personal visits and very few media appearances, his last one since 1985 being a 2006 interview which formed part of a "Len Deighton Night" on BBC Four.
