A related novel by Deighton, Yesterday's Spy ( 1975 ), also features some of the same characters that appeared in Spy Story, although ' Harry Palmer ' is not apparently amongst them.

Taylor also wrote the introduction for Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain by Len Deighton in 1970.

Cape also signed up Len Deighton, whose series of spy novels featuring an unnamed protagonist ( now known as Harry Palmer ) was a gritty alternative to the far-fetched adventures of James Bond.

Moto have recently opened Britain's first carbon neutral service station on the A1 ( M ) at Kirk Deighton near Wetherby, lying across the border line between West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire, they have also purchased Winchester Services from Roadchef for conversion to carbon neutral operation.

The carnival starts with a procession of floats ( usually 5 or 6 ) leaving the Deighton Centre from approximately 1pm, playing Reggae Dancehall, Bassline, RnB, Garage and Reggae on the road, costumed bands make up more of the procession including Suga Brown dance group, " Whitacre TRA " and also from Bradley Junior and Infant and Ashbrow Junior and Infant schools.

Len Deighton introduced the lead character in The IPCRESS File, his first novel, published in November 1962.

Goodbye, Mickey Mouse is a historical novel by Len Deighton published in 1982.

Bomber is a novel written by Len Deighton and published in the UK in 1970.

Some of these films included The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ( 1965 ), The Deadly Affair ( 1966 ), and the Harry Palmer series, based on the novels of Len Deighton.

The first trilogy of his Bernard Samson novel series was made into a twelve-part television series by Granada Television in 1988, shown only once, then withdrawn on instructions from Deighton.

* Spy Hook, Spy Line, and Spy Sinker, a series of spy novels by Len Deighton

Leonard Cyril Deighton (; born 18 February 1929 ) is a British military historian, cookery writer, and novelist.

Following the success of his first novels, Deighton became The Observers cookery writer and produced illustrated cookbooks.

* Harry Palmer, a fictional secret agent based on the books of Len Deighton

Gottlieb has edited novels by John Cheever, Salman Rushdie, John Gardner, Len Deighton, John le Carré, Ray Bradbury, Elia Kazan, Margaret Drabble, Michael Crichton, Mordecai Richler and Toni Morrison, and non-fiction books by Barbara Tuchman, Jessica Mitford, Robert Caro, Antonia Fraser, Lauren Bacall, Liv Ullman, Sidney Poitier, John Lennon, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Bruno Bettelheim, Carl Schorske, and many others.

Deighton wrote the screenplay and was an uncredited producer

George Deighton wrote Sarnia Cherie in 1911, with Domenico Santangelo subsequently composing the tune later that year.

Harry Palmer has much in common with Deighton, including passions for military history ( Harvey Newbegin complains about his bookshelf contents in Billion Dollar Brain ), cooking, and classical music.

* 1929 – Len Deighton, British author

* February 18 – Len Deighton, British author

John Deighton ( November 1830 – May 29, 1875 ), generally known as " Gassy Jack ", was a Canadian bar owner who was born in Hull, England.

with Christ Church: – Starting from the meeting point of the parishes of St. George, St. Michael, and Christ Church and proceeding in a southerly direction along the plantation track and the boundary between the residential development called Fort George Heights and the Kent House residential development to the junction of the boundary with the public road called Highway R ; then in a westerly direction along Highway R to its junction at Wildey with the Airport to West Coast Highway ; then in a southerly direction along this Highway to its merging at Clapham with the public road called Highway 6 ; then in a north-westerly direction along Highway 6 to its junction with the public road called Observatory Road ; then in a southerly direction along Observatory Road to its junction with the public road called Fordes Road, then in a south-westerly part of Africa, north-westerly and northerly direction along Fordes Road, Bonnett ’ s Road and Brittons New Road to its junction with Dalkeith Hill ; then in a westerly direction along Dalkeith Hill to its junction with Deighton Road ; then in a generally southerly direction along Deighton Road to its junction with Dayrells Road ; then in a south-westerly, north-westerly and westerly direction along Dayrells Road to its junction at the Garrison with Dalkeith Road ; then in a generally south-westerly direction along Dalkeith Road to its junction with the public road called Highway 7 ; then directly across Highway 7 and continuing in a south-westerly direction along the road leading to Gravesend Beach and directly to the sea.

with St. Michael: – Starting from the meeting point of the parishes of St. George, St. Michael, and Christ Church and proceeding in a southerly direction along the plantation track and the boundary between the residential development called Fort George Heights and the Kent House residential development to the junction of the boundary with the public road called Highway R ; then in a westerly direction along Highway R to its junction at Wildey with the Airport to West Coast Highway ; then in a southerly direction along this Highway to its merging at Clapham with the public road called Highway 6 ; then in a north-westerly direction along Highway 6 to its junction with the public road called Observatory Road ; then in a southerly direction along Observatory Road to its junction with the public road called Fordes Road, then in a south-westerly, north-westerly and northerly direction along Fordes Road, Bonnett ’ s Road and Brittons New Road to its junction with Dalkeith Hill ; then in a westerly direction along Dalkeith Hill to its junction with Deighton Road ; then in a generally southerly direction along Deighton Road to its junction with Dayrells Road ; then in a south-westerly, north-westerly and westerly direction along Dayrells Road to its junction at the Garrison with Dalkeith Road ; then in a generally south-westerly direction along Dalkeith Road to its junction with the public road called Highway 7 ; then directly across Highway 7 and continuing in a south-westerly direction along the road leading to Gravesend Beach and directly to the sea.

* Alan R. Deighton, " The Sins of Saint John of Beverley: The Case of the Dutch Volksboek Jan van Beverley ", Leuvense Bijdragen 82 ( 1993 ) 227 – 246.

* Deighton, Len.

Despite the commercial success of Fleming's fantastical anti-Communist novels, other former spies, such as John le Carré and Len Deighton, created anti-heroic men protagonists who used the immoral tactics.

* Len Deighton

In his 1967 spy thriller An Expensive Place to Die, Len Deighton misidentifies the Flemish coast tram: " The red glow of Ostend is nearer now and yellow trains rattle alongside the motor road and over the bridge by the Royal Yacht Club ..."

* Deighton, Len.

Many novels in the spy fiction genre have been adapted as films, including works by John Buchan, Le Carré, Ian Fleming ( Bond ) and Len Deighton.

On the one hand, the realistic spy novels of Len Deighton and John le Carré were adapted into relatively serious Cold War thrillers which dealt with some of the realities of the espionage world.

Len Deighton ( left ) teaches Michael Caine how to break an egg on the set of The Ipcress File ( film ) | The IPCRESS File.

He has not returned to England apart from some personal visits and very few media appearances, his last one since 1985 being a 2006 interview which formed part of a " Len Deighton Night " on BBC Four.

Harry Palmer is the name of the protagonist of a number of films based on the main character from the spy novels written by Len Deighton.

Encouraging the unitary concept-that the later novels feature ' Harry Palmer ' - is the 1974 dust jacket to the Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich American edition of Spy Story, in which the cover blurb states, " He is back, after five long-years ' absence, the insubordinate, decent, bespectacled English spy who fought, fumbled, and survived his outrageous way through the best-selling Horse Under Water, Funeral in Berlin, and the rest of those marvellous, celebrated Len Deighton spy thrillers.

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.

In 1968 he won substantial damages in Libel against Len Deighton amongst others.

Funeral in Berlin is a spy novel by Len Deighton.

Billion-Dollar Brain ( 1966, ISBN 0-09-985710-3 ) is a Cold War spy novel by Len Deighton, and the fourth protagonised by an anonymous secret agent working for the British WOOC ( P ) intelligence agency.

SS-GB is an alternate history novel by Len Deighton, set in a United Kingdom fictionally conquered and occupied by Germany during World War II.

Category: Novels by Len Deighton