Another one appears in Len Deighton's spy novel Berlin Game, published in 1983, which contains the following passage, spoken by Bernard Samson:

Deighton's anonymous spy, protagonist of The IPCRESS File ( 1962 ), Horse Under Water ( 1963 ), Funeral in Berlin ( 1964 ), and others, is a working-class man.

The IPCRESS File was Len Deighton's first spy novel, published in 1962.

At least one of the strips is pinned up in Deighton's spy hero's kitchen in the 1965 film of his novel The IPCRESS File.

Deighton's spy is described as working class, living in a back street flat and seedy hotels, and shopping in supermarkets.

It has been theorised that the protagonist in another of Deighton's spy novels, An Expensive Place to Die ( 1967 ), also written in the first-person-anonymous narrative, is also ' Harry Palmer '; however, differences in characterisation and plotting indicate this is someone else other than Palmer.

Saltzman's interests continued to range apart from the series, including production of a loose trilogy of spy films based on Len Deighton's Harry Palmer, a character who operates in a parallel universe to Bond, with all the danger but none of the glamour and gadgets.

Horse Under Water ( 1963, ISBN 0-399-10419-4 ) is the second of Len Deighton's spy novels featuring an anonymous British agent protagonist ( named Harry Palmer in the film adaptions ).

First published in 1977, Fighter was Deighton's first history book, having made his name as a writer of spy fiction.

In common with several of Deighton's other early novels, the chapter headings have a " feature ".

The front cover, by Deighton's friend Raymond Hawkey, has been described as " the template for the covers of all subsequent airport novels ".

The title track was inspired by Len Deighton's novel Bomber.

The track was inspired after Lemmy had read Len Deighton's novel Bomber.

Deighton's 1977 " Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain " was said by Albert Speer ( once Hitler's Minister of Armaments ) to be " an excellent, most thorough examination.

West is regularly heard on radio as a reader or reciter and has performed in many radio dramas, including Otherkin by Laura Wade, Len Deighton's Bomber, Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, Michael Frayn's Here and The Homecoming as Lenny to Harold Pinter's Max.

It also features Deighton's trademark technical and operational details of the P-51 Mustang fighter which the Group flies.

In Deighton's novel, Samson is an unreliable narrator and his words cannot necessarily be taken at face value.

The film medium made it difficult to maintain the anonymity of Deighton's hero, who acquired the name Harry Palmer.

Deighton also published a series of cookery books and wrote and drew a weekly strip cartoon-style illustrated cooking guide in London's The Observer newspaper – Len Deighton's Cookstrip.

To exploit the success of Deighton's first four " Unnamed Hero " novels, he wrote Len Deighton's London Dossier ( 1967 ), a guide book to Swinging Sixties London with a " secret agent " theme – contributions from other writers are described as " surveillance reports.

Michael Caine played Harry Palmer in the films based on three of the first four of the published novels featuring this character, and also later in two films not based on Len Deighton's novels.

When the novel sold well, Eon producers Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli approached Deighton to write the script for the next 007 film, From Russia With Love ( 1963 ); despite Deighton's efforts, little of his screenplay was filmed.

However, the ambiguity this creates between the two versions, while coincidental, is in keeping with the nature of the character and Deighton's theme of agents losing sight of their original lives.

In 1976, Deighton's novel Spy Story was filmed with Michael Petrovitch as ' Patrick Armstrong '; it is unrelated to Saltzman's Harry Palmer films.

Despite sometimes being titled Len Deighton's Bullet to Beijing and Len Deighton's Midnight in St Petersburg, Len Deighton did not participate in these films.

Deighton's native wife died.

* Oskar Huth, a top investigator under Heinrich Himmler's direct supervision in Len Deighton's alternative history novel SS-GB.

Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding is Deighton's hero in this book, being one of the few people who perceived the situation accurately.

The film generated a lot of speculation and interest when news leaked that the film utilized the very same surveillance and wire-tapping equipment that members of the Nixon administration used to spy on political opponents prior to the Watergate scandal.

He initially approached the British three different times, including through his wife ( though Pujol edited her participation out of his memoirs ), but they showed no interest in employing him as a spy.

In the summer of 1968, Tate began her next film, The Wrecking Crew ( 1969 ), a comedy in which she played Freya Carlson, an accident-prone spy, who was also a romantic interest for star Dean Martin, playing Matt Helm.

Jake's love interest / U. S. Government spy contact is Sarah Stickney White ( Caitlin O ' Heaney ).

Unlike the film, the novel shows little overt Soviet interest in recovering the lost spy satellite other than a spy ship disguised as a fishing trawler waiting outside Holy Loch when the Tiger-fish sets sail.

While there, he meets his British contact and love interest, English spy Emilia Rothschild.

The 1978 martial arts / spy film Gymkata Killer is also of curio interest, if only for the presence of Bruce Lee imitator Bruce Le ( who also directed the film, with uncredited help from Paolo Solvay ), European softcore star Nadiuska and Harrison's son Sebastian.

Instead he gathered a quantity of classified documents concerning secure U. S. communications ciphers and spy satellite development and had his friend Andrew Daulton Lee, a cocaine and heroin dealer since his high school days ( hence his nickname, " The Snowman ") deliver them to Soviet embassy officials in Mexico City, returning with large sums of cash for Boyce ( nicknamed " The Falcon " because of his longtime interest in falconry ) and himself.

Later, after having found a new romantic interest, Damm attempted to " divorce " her, accompanied by false allegations that she was a spy, and was greatly embarrassed when his duplicity emerged during the case, revealed by business partner Olof Gyldén ( who was subsequently passed over for promotion at Damm's company ).

Through a bizarre chain of events, Chuck and Jerry, their mutual love interest Sally Goodfellow and their janitor-turned-KGB spy Old John find themselves flung into the far reaches of the galaxy, where they become involved in an intergalactic war that could change the universe forever.

Sven Rubenson records that when the Patriarch expressed an interest in reviewing the Emperor's army, Tewodros suspected him of being a spy, and confined him with Abuna Salama to their house ; only after the Ethiopian clergy intervened, were both men released.

Even without the broad reading that the claim included secrecy concerning the aircraft itself, the court found it possible that the documents ' revelations " that the mission required an ' aircraft capable of dropping bombs ' and that the mission required an airplane capable of ' operating at altitudes of 20, 000 feet and above '" could have been " seemingly insignificant pieces of information would have been of keen interest to a Soviet spy fifty years ago.

A matter of interest to students of the Cold War came to light years later when records from Field's interrogations were found in the Hungarian Interior Ministry archives, and in those records Fields named Alger Hiss as a fellow Communist spy.

Spooner's time with these programmes betrayed not just an overwhelming interest in spy fiction, but also a penchant for rewarding friendship.

The new studio head had no interest in spy films unless they could get a movie star like Tom Cruise to appear in the film.

Griffin is aided in his task by Maria Sorenson ( Ilona Massey ), a British spy and the love interest of Stauffer.