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Len Deighton

    18 februari 1929

    Len Deighton staat bekend om zijn meeslepende spionagethrillers, die vaak de morele ambiguïteiten en psychologische diepten van zijn personages verkennen. Zijn schrijfstijl kenmerkt zich door nauwgezet onderzochte details en een realistische weergave van de inlichtingendiensten, wat lezers een authentiek inkijkje in de spionage biedt. Deighton creëert ingewikkelde plots met onverwachte wendingen die lezers op het puntje van hun stoel houden. Zijn werk put vaak uit zijn eigen ervaringen en fascinatie voor militaire geschiedenis, wat zijn verhalen een extra laag van geloofwaardigheid en inzicht verleent.

    Len Deighton
    Blood, Tears and Folly
    Bomber
    Berlin Game: A Bernard Sampson Novel
    Action Cook Book
    The Valley of Fear
    XPD
    • "Berlin Game begins with a plea from a British agent stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and return home to the West. Bernard Samson, the former field agent now stationed behind a London desk, is tasked with the rescue. But before he even sets out on the mission, suspicions arise that there is a traitor among his colleagues in the KGB, likely one of his closest colleagues. The first in Deighton's acclaimed Game, Set, Match trilogy starring the talented-yet-jaded intelligence officer Bernard Samson, Berlin Game is a riveting story of betrayal and suspicion in the Second World War"--

      Berlin Game: A Bernard Sampson Novel2023
      4,3
    • A collection of thirteen stories that offer an inside view of fighting men poised at the edge of death. Len Deighton's only collection of shorter fiction, this dazzling array of stories spans twenty-three centuries of warfare. From Hannibal's march on Rome - when strange, moving objects terrorise the troops of one of the toughest and most skilful armies in history - to the efforts of a belittled Civil War general to get his men to face the Confederate army; to the dawn skies above an artillery-blasted French battle-line where a dogfight unfolds, to Vietnam; where two lost American soldiers stumble across an abandoned military airfield. Each story in Declarations of War explores the effects of war upon man's character, how it pushes him to act in a dehumanized, machine-like way, often leading to extraordinary deeds, both good and ill. It portrays human conflict through a series of devastating experiences and shows how great deeds are often but the smallest thread in the large fabric of war.

      Declarations of War2021
      3,7
    • An unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File - is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackmail and hidden motive, where friend and enemy become indistinguishable.

      An Expensive Place to Die2016
      2,9
    • Action Cook Book

      • 320bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      'I am going to cook you the best meal you have ever tasted in your life...' Harry Palmer to Sue Lloyd in `The Ipcress Files''Len was a great cook, a smashing cook. I learned a lot about food from playing Harry Palmer' Michael Caine

      Action Cook Book2009
      4,3
    • Billion-Dollar Brain

      • 254bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      This is the thrilling story of an anti-communist espionage network owned by a Texan billionaire, General Midwinter, run from a vast computer complex known as the Brain.

      Billion-Dollar Brain2009
      3,6
    • Bernard Samson, ein britischer Geheimagent, steht in einer schwierigen Lage: Seine Frau arbeitet für den KGB, Geld ist verschwunden, und er fühlt sich von seinen Vorgesetzten als Köder benutzt. Dies ist der erste Teil einer Trilogie, die spannende und witzige Unterhaltung bietet.

      Geködert. Thriller1997
      3,0
    • Kairo. Roman

      • 368bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      Der des Mordes verdächtigte Schauspieler Jim Ross in seiner größten Rolle: als Kriminalkommissar Cutler leitet er die Suche nach dem Spion, der Rommel 1942 bestens über die Planungen der britischen Armee unterrichtet.

      Kairo. Roman1996
    • Faith, Hope & Charity Trilogy - 3: Charity

      The Stunning Conclusion to the Bernard Samson Trilogy.

      • 320bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      The third volume in the trilogy that began with FAITH and HOPE, in which Bernard Samson wonders how the Cold War will end for him and his family and whether he can continue to out-fox the upper-class desk pilots who have so cleverly dominated his life.

      Faith, Hope & Charity Trilogy - 3: Charity1996
      4,1
    • Hope

      • 320bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      Bernard Sampson, survivor and spy epy extraordinaire, the star of Len Deighton's two previous bestselling trilogies--Game, Set and Match and Spy Hook, Spy Line and Spy Sinker--is back in the dazzling new series: Faith, Hope and Charity. Using as a backdrop the months before the Berlin Wall crumbled and the Eastern Bloc dissolved, Deighton vividly paints the shadowy world of spies and moles, agents and double agents pitted in which physical violence is only the beginning.

      Hope1996
      4,1