Len Deighton, Author HarperCollins Publishers $21.95 (410p) ISBN 978-0-06-017936-6
Using a broad, dark canvas, Deighton ( The Ipcress File ; Spy Sinker ) follows the convoluted trails of diverse political interests converging in the South American jungle of Spanish Guiana, where a U.S. prospecting team has discovered oil. Comrade...
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Len Deighton, Author HarperTorch $5.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-109094-3
Veteran spy novelist Deighton's latest--a four-week PW bestseller in hardcover--trails diverse political interests in a South American jungle, ultimately disappointing with its unraveling plot and elusive characters. (Aug.)
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Len Deighton, Author Ballantine Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-36520-0
In this first installment of a second trilogy starring British spy Bernard Samson, the reader is always several steps ahead of the disbelieving hero, who becomes the unwilling dupe of a ruthless, super-secret plot by his own agency. The complicated...
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Len Deighton, Author Alfred A. Knopf $17.95 (407p) ISBN 978-0-394-54937-8
Winding up the tense story begun in Berlin Game and continued in Mexico Set, Deighton's new thriller follows British intelligence agent Bernard Samson as he careens between troubled spots in Berlin and London. Bernard's recent triumph is persuading...
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Len Deighton, Author Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-394-55178-4
Initiating a second trilogy, Deighton mesmerizes the reader with the ongoing trials of Bernard Sansom, British intelligence agent who survived perils in Berlin Game , Mexico Set and London Match. Sansom's story begins with a fruitless meeting in...
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Len Deighton, Author Mysterious Press $16.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-175-7
Originally published in England in 1968, this early Deighton novel is set not in his familiar espionage milieu but in the world of international con artists. As caper novels go, it is entertaining, even cute at times, but it is far less than what...
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Len Deighton, Author Alfred A. Knopf $19.95 (571p) ISBN 978-0-394-55177-7
Modern history and suspenseful fiction are here brilliantly combined by a master of both. The plot revolves around two brothers, sons of a wealthy Berlin banker and his American wife, whose conflicting destinies are the means by which Deighton (Blitz
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Len Deighton, Author Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-394-55179-1
Deighton's novels Berlin Game , Mexico Set and London Match initiated the stories about British secret agent Bernard Samson, whose wife Fiona has defected to the U.S.S.R. As narrated by Samson, the three tales are intensely exciting, a quality that...
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Len Deighton, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (375p) ISBN 978-0-06-017937-3
If the author of The Ipcress File is not at the very top of his form here, he nevertheless produces an absorbing and well-crafted WW II thriller. In January 1942, infamous Gen. Erwin Rommel is making a seemingly unstoppable march on Cairo, the ``city
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Len Deighton, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (305p) ISBN 978-0-06-017938-0
Deighton's latest, an enjoyable departure from his tales of British espionage ( City of Gold , etc.), introduces a protagonist with definite series potential. Harried L.A. lawyer Mickey Murphy is plagued by a slew of eccentrics who fully bear out...
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Len Deighton, Author HarperCollins Publishers $30 (653p) ISBN 978-0-06-017000-4
The author of City of Gold here takes a pragmatic look at the early years of WW II, ``that complex and frightening time in which evil was in the ascendant, goodness diffident, and the British--impetuous, foolish and brave beyond measure--the world's
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Len Deighton, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (337p) ISBN 978-0-06-017622-8
Deighton's beleaguered British spy, Bernard Samson, returns to kick off the third trilogy in the outstanding series that has run from 1984's Berlin Game through 1990's Spy Sinker. Taking up where Sinker left off, in the fall of 1987 (thus making...
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Len Deighton, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-017696-9
Veteran British spy Bernard Samson returns to fight further Cold War battles in this deceptively easygoing sequel to Faith (and prequel to Charity), set in 1987. Here, the dour secret agent tries to track down his Polish brother-in-law, George...
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Len Deighton, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (279p) ISBN 978-0-06-018728-6
With this successor to Faith and Hope, British spy Bernard Samson has used up nine lives as the hero of three trilogies. Yet he, and Deighton, remain full of vitality. In his latest depiction of the hermetic world of English spies, ""all those...
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Len Dieghton, Author, Len Deighton, Author HarperCollins Publishers $21.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-06-039118-8
The final volume in Deighton's hook, line and sinker espionage trilogy will likely disappoint even his staunchest fans with its passionless, unsuspenseful scenario for explaining the political liberation of Eastern Europe at the end of the '80s....
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