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An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An unnamed spy is entangled in Paris's seedy underworld in a rollercoaster Cold War thrillerAn 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, blackma ...Show more
Berlin Game by Len Deighton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first novel in the Bernard Samson series is a dazzling return to Deighton's world of Cold War espionageEmbattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues - including his own wife Fiona - rise up the ranks of MI6. When a valued agent in ...Show more
Billion-Dollar Brain by Len Deighton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The final spy novel featuring the unnamed hero of The IPCRESS File series finds him up against a Texan billionaire with an all-powerful computerTexan 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 ...Show more
Blitzkrieg by Len Deighton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A compelling history of Blitzkrieg: the 'lightning war' by which Hitler and his generals overwhelmed the Allied armies in Western Europe. 'Blitzkrieg' begins with a chilling portrait of Hitler's rise to power in pre-war Germany, setting the stage for the outbreak of the Second World War and his conquest ...Show more
Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II by Len Deighton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Military
Drawing on the author's deep understanding of military life and the strengths and frailties of politicians and generals, this is a myth-puncturing analysis of the advent of the Second World War. 'Blood, Tears and Folly' offers a sweeping and compelling historical analysis of six theatres of war: the Bat ...Show more
Blood, Tears and Folly - An Objective Look at World War Two by Len Deighton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A magisterial history of the Second World War by best-selling novelist and former RAF pilot Len Deighton Drawing on the author's deep understanding of military life and the strengths and frailties of politicians and generals, this is a myth-puncturing analysis of the advent of the Second World War.Blood ...Show more
Bomber by Len Deighton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The classic novel of the Second World War that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour story of an allied bombing raid. Bomber is a novel of war. There are no victors, no vanquished. There are simply those who remain alive, and those who die. Bomber follows the progress of an Allied air raid through a ...Show more
Bomber by Len Deighton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Probably the best thing ever written about the wartime air campaign against Germany' Max Hastings 'Magnificent ... rich with historical detail' The Times 31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a night that many will never forget. Len Deighton's devastating nove ...Show more
Charity by Len Deighton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The final novel featuring Bernard Samson, one of Deighton's most enduring characters, who must return to Berlin for one last caseBernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY.Bernard continues to chip away at the mystery of his sister-in-law Tess ...Show more
City of Gold by Len Deighton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime
The race is on to find a German agent, hiding somewhere in the maze of wartime Cairo 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 i ...Show more
Close-Up by Len Deighton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Deighton draws on his personal experience of the cut-throat Hollywood film industry in this dark and compelling thrillerDeighton's incendiary novel of the film industry uncovers a Hollywood Babylon for our time.Marshall Stone, international superstar and charismatic member of Hollywood's elite. Abundant ...Show more
Declarations of War by Len Deighton
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Category: Crime
Deighton's only collection of short stories examines the experiences of soldiers across two millennia of warA 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 twent ...Show more