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.

Berlin Game begins with a plea from “Brahms Four,” one of Britain’s most valuable agents stationed in East Germany: He wants to cross the Iron Curtain and come to the West. Bernard Samson, the former field agent now stationed in London, is tasked with the rescue. But before he even sets out on the mission, suspicions arise that there is a traitor in the MI6, likely one of his closest colleagues.The first in Deighton’s acclaimed Game, Set, Match trilogy featuring t...

"A blistering read . . . the guessing game continues until the final page."—Time OutIn Len Deighton's razor-sharp noir, criminal lawyer Mickey Murphy gets entangled in a complex scam and murder investigation backdropped by a riot-torn Los AngelesDowntown Los Angeles, 1992. Mickey Murphy is a rumpled criminal defense attorney scraping by with a shabby office, an ex-wife bleeding him for money, and clients who would plead the Fifth—i...

“You will be hooked from the first chapter and enjoy every line… a superb novel.”—Sunday ExpressThe Berlin Wall has fallen. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramón and his desperate men hiding in the jungle, cradling their AK-47s, dusting off the Semtex, and still dreaming of world revolution.MAMista takes us from the back corridors of American power in Washington, where oil and arms deals dictate who lives and who dies, to the violent capital of S...

“What Deighton did for the Battle of Britain in Fighter he has done for the land-war here… A rattlingly good yarn.”—GuardianThis is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking behind the atta...

A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton’s iconic unnamed protagonist—later christened Harry Palmer—to find out why. His search begins in a grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he ends up amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister.With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton’s sensational debut and firs...

“Every page glows with the excitement of discovery . . . wonderful.”—Geoff Dyer, The GuardianDrawing on Len Deighton's deep understanding of ordinary soldiers and the strengths and weaknesses of the leaders who sent them into battle, Blood, Tears, and Folly is a sweeping and unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War.Rooted in the personal accounts of the soldiers themselves and ranging across six theaters—from the Bat...

“Written with economy and grace . . . often exciting, sometimes eerie, always sad.”—Evening StandardLen Deighton’s only collection of short fiction explores the devastating experiences of soldiers across twenty-three centuries of warfare, from Hannibal’s march on Rome to the jungles of Vietnam.Across these sharp, unsparing stories, Deighton’s deep compassion for the ordinary soldier is matched only by his hatred for war and the ways it makes machin...

Len Deighton — one of the masters of twentieth-century espionage fiction — combines his expertise as both historian and novelist in Bomber, the classic World War II novel that relates, in devastating detail, the twenty-four-hour story of an allied bombing raid.Skilled Royal Air Force bomber pilot Sam Lambert is exhausted, and his veteran crewmen have just been replaced by an inexperienced new team. Victor von Löwenherz, a German night fighter pilot who int...

Steve Champion - flamboyant businessman, former leader of an anti-Nazi network in the Second World War - is a man surrounded by mysteries. There are rumors he is still in the spying business. 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.

"The pace of the story is compulsive . . . it is a real pleasure to be swallowed up in Deighton's description of wartime Cairo."—Daily TelegraphJanuary 1942. Rommel, the fabled "Desert Fox," has pushed back the British Army three hundred miles in a matter of weeks. His seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. And Rommel has a spy in the city—a source so well-informed that the German command...

“Deighton's best book . . . an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to be a routine...