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Len Deighton -- one of the masters of twentieth-centuryespionage fiction -- combines his expertise as both historian and novelist in Bomber, the classic World War II novel that relates, in devastating detail, thetwenty-four-hour story of an allied bombing raid. Skilled Royal Air Force bomber pilot Sam Lambert isexhausted, and his veteran crewmen have just been replaced by an inexperiencednew team. Victor von L wenherz, a German night fighter pilot who intercepts RAFbombers in his Junkers Ju 88, looks on with horror at the Nazi regime. AndHansl, a German boy in the small market town of Altgarten, sleeps at home. Lambertand his crew prepare for a bombing raid on the Ruhr area. It's a night thatmany will never forget. Bomber is a masterful, gripping, minute-by-minuteaccount of what occurs over the next twenty-four hours. Told through the eyesof protag-onists on all sides and astonishingly precise in its depictions ofplanes, weapons, and behind-the-scenes war strategy, this is Len Deighton athis best. An unforgettable portrait of war, both in the air and on the ground.

A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secretBritish intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton's iconic unnamedprotagonist--later christened Harry Palmer--to find out why. His search begins ina grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he endsup amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turnsinto something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton'ssensational debut and first bestseller The IPCRESS File broke the moldof thriller writing and became the defining novel of 1960s London.

When disaffected KGB major Erich Stinnes is spotted inMexico City, British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice him to takethe final step and defect. With his domestic life a shambles and his careerheading towards disaster, Bernard needs to prove his re-liability. And he knowsStinnes already: Bernard had been interrogated by him in East Berlin. But now, Bernard risks being entangled in a lethal web of old loyalties and oldbetrayals. All he knows for sure is that he has to get Stinnes forLondon. Who's pulling the strings is another matter.

Bernard Samson suspects there is a traitor within hisdepartment of MI6. A jaded but highly skilled British intelligence agentnearing the end of his career, Samson already got KGB major Eric Stinnes to defect.But when a British KGB agent makes a sweeping confession with a suspiciousundertone, the finger points straight back to London--where Stinnes is lockedup, refusing to talk. The spy who's in the clear doesn't exist. In the spec-tacularthird novel in Len Deighton's Game, Set, Match trilogy, will Samson makethe winning move?

'A stunning spy story ... incomparable' GuardianIt is the most dangerous secret of the Second World War, one that could destroy Britain's reputation forever. In 1940, a clandestine meeting took place between Churchill and Adolf Hitler. All records of it have been hidden, and anyone who discovers the truth dies - their file stamped XPD; Expedient Demise. But now what was buried is threatening to come to light, and SIS agent Boyd Stuart must stop it falling into the wrong hands, no matter how high the price. 'Deliciously sharp and flawlessly accurate dialogue, breathtakingly clever plotting ... a splendidly strongly told story' The Times

'The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world' The TimesDecember 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at a windswept air base in Norfolk. Their job is to escort bombers over Germany, and each mission could be their last. Among them are cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed 'Mickey Mouse'), who is almost on his way to becoming a Flying Ace, and reserved Captain Jamie Farebrother, who is starting to fall in love with an English woman. All they have in common is their courage - until the day their lives converge in ways they could never have imagined. 'Truly astonishing in its recreation of a time and place ... it is a novel of memory, satisfying on every imaginable level' Washington Post

'The poet of the spy story' Sunday Times A sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War - until now. Inside its rusting hull, among the corpses of top-rank Nazis, lie secrets people will kill to obtain. The sequel to Len Deighton's game-changing debut The IPCRESS File, Horse Under Water sees its nameless, laconic narrator sent from fogbound London to the Algarve, where he must dive through layers of deceit in a place rotten with betrayals.

'Len Deighton's spy novels are so good they make me sad the Cold War is over' Malcolm Gladwell After six weeks in a nuclear submarine gathering computer data on Soviet activity, the mysterious, bespectacled spy known as Patrick Armstrong is desperate to return home. But when he arrives at his London flat, it appears to be occupied by someone who looks just like him - and he finds himself propelled into the heart of a conspiracy stretching from the remote Scottish highlands to the Arctic ice. Revisiting some of the characters from The IPCRESS File, Spy Story shows military games played out for real, and the Cold War turning dangerously hot. 'Menacing, beguiling ... a vintage Len Deighton thriller' The Times Literary SupplementA PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL

'The master at his peak' Daily Telegraph A Russian scientist is defecting to the West, in order to realize his dreams of contacting extra-terrestrial life among the stars. But when an insubordinate British agent and a top CIA operative are sent to the Sahara desert to bring him in, things don't go to plan. The result is a violent chase stretching across three continents, where loyalties - between spies, partners, nations and lovers - become fatally divided. 'Classic, world-ranging, marvellously knowledgeable ... in a word, quality' The Times'Tightly and complicatedly plotted, so credible in detail' Financial TimesA PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL

'For sheer readability he has no peer' Evening Standard Paris in the 1960's caters for every taste, and nowhere more than at the private 'clinic' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch, which supplies psychedelic drugs and sexual favours to the city's elite - all the while secretly filming guests in order to blackmail them. Into this decadent underworld steps a bespectacled British spy. Sent on what seems like a simple mission, he soon finds himself playing a game where the rules are unknown - and even victory could be fatal. 'Take this excellent thriller at a single gulp' Sunday TimesA PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL

'Deighton at his best' Evening Standard Steve Champion - flamboyant businessman, former leader of an anti-Nazi network in the Second World War - is a man surrounded by mysteries. There are rumours he is still in the spying business. And suspicions that his fortune may be built on something nefarious; something he'd rather stayed secret. The Department are nervous, so Champion's oldest wartime ally is sent to the South of France to investigate. It's time to re-open the file on yesterday's spy, whatever the consequences. 'Tough, well-written and extremely readable' Daily MailA PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL

'Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times 'Worth of Raymond Chandler ... intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining' Sunday Telegraph Texan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The fourth and final novel featuring the cynical, insolent narrator of The IPCRESS File sees him sent from his shabby Soho office to bone-freezing Helsinki in order to penetrate Midwinter's vast anti-Communist network - and stop a deadly virus from wiping out the planet.

History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton draws on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these myths and point towards a more objective - and even more inspiring - truth.

January 1942. Rommel's seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gates of Egypt - perhaps soon to threaten Cairo itself.And Rommel has a spy in the city - a source so well-informed that the German commander knows in advance every movement of the allied forces.Amongst the teeming streets and bazaars, the British, led by Major Albert Cutler, must find him. But Cairo is a city of fool's gold, where nothing and nobody, not even Cutler, can be taken at face value.