Leonard Cyril Deighton (born February 18, 1929) is a British historian and author of spy fiction and historical novels.

Several of his novels have been adapted for films. His first few novels featured an unnamed hero, which in the movie versions was dubbed "Harry Palmer" and was played by Michael Caine. The first trilogy of his Bernard Samson series was made into a 13-part television series by Granada Television in 1987.

Deighton has also published a series of cookery books.

Selected Bibliography

The Harry Palmer books

• The Ipcress File 1962
• Horse Under Water 1963
• Funeral in Berlin 1964
• Billion Dollar Brain 1966

The Bernard Samson Books:

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

A prequel to the series, Winter, was written in 1987.

Others:

• An Expensive Place to Die 1967
• Only When I Larf 1968
• Bomber 1970
• Declarations of War short story collection, 1971
• Close-Up 1972
• Spy Story 1974
• Yesterday's Spy 1975
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy 1976
• SS-GB, 1978, An alternate history novel in which Britain was conquered by Nazi Germany
• XPD 1980
• Goodbye, Mickey Mouse 1982
• MAMista 1991
• City of Gold 1992
• Violent Ward 1993

History:

• Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain 1977
• Airshipwreck 1978
• 1979
• Battle of Britain, with Max Hastings, 1980 ISBN 0224018264
• 1993

External Links

• Unofficial Len Deighton page http://www-staff.mcs.uts.edu.au/~tomlin/LD/
• More information on LD http://www.algonet.se/~kallman/books/deighton.htm
• Another Len Deighton fan page http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/1767/deighton.htm
• Harry Palmer movie fan page http://members.tripod.com/keesstam/harrypalmer.html