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Len Deighton | | Birth Date: |
18 February 1929 |
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 Biography of Len Deighton
13250 words, approx. 44.2 pages
 [This entry was updated by Gina Macdonald (Loyola University) with her entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 35-55.] Len Deighton is a celebrated spy-thriller writer and military historian whose fiction is innovativ... summary from source:
 Biography of Len Deighton
11947 words, approx. 39.8 pages
Len Deighton is a celebrated spy-thriller writer and military historian whose fiction is innovative and convincing. His novels are well crafted and entertaining. He has been called "the Flaubert of contemporary thriller writers" (Michael Howard, Times Li... summary from source:
 Biography of Len Deighton
5842 words, approx. 19.5 pages
With his early novels, especially The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin, Len Deighton established himself as one of the mainstays of modern espionage fiction. He is often ranked--along with Graham Greene, John le Carre, and Ian Fleming--among the foremo...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The IPCRESS File Information
314 words, approx. 1 pages
 The IPCRESS File was the first spy novel by Len Deighton, published in 1962. It was made into a film in 1965 produced by Harry Saltzman and directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Michael Caine as the protagonist. The plot involves mind control: the...
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The Washington Post The Ipcress File
08/06/1987: 144 words, approx. 1 pagesUnrated, 1965, 109 minutes, MCA Home Video, $29.95. Michael Caine, cheeky, young and bespectacled, is Harry Palmer, Len Deighton's no-frills spy, a sort of common man's James Bond, in this film about a plot to undermine England's brain power by torturing its leading scientists...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
453 words, approx. 2 pages
[So far] the only newcomer to emerge with an original approach has been Mr. Len Deighton with his first novel, The Ipcress File. Described in the publishers' advertisement as presenting "spyworks with the lid off", this story … carries certainly an air of inside knowledge: to add even more verisimilitude, Mr. Deighton includes appendixes on handling unfamiliar pistols, "top secret" atomic explosions, the composition of neutron bombs, the prices currently fetched by ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Robert Donald Spectar
255 words, approx. 1 pages
[In The Ipcress File] Len Deighton has combined picaresque satire, parody, and suspense and produced a hybrid more humorous than thrilling. Inevitably, his comedic attack on modern espionage agencies and his burlesque of the fictional techniques of Ambler, Fleming, and Greene reduce the intensity and intrigue of his narrative. But even in itself his tale of espionage lacks distinction, and, despite some revelatory material on "brainwashing," its familiarity breeds boredom. Fortunately, the sto... summary from source:
Critical Essay by John B. Cullen
142 words, approx. 1 pages
[Len Deighton], with no war experience, but with knowledge of investigation tactics as well as military history,… uses this background [in The Ipcress File] to good advantage in a tale of espionage. Unlike the straight intelligence work of Ian Fleming or our own Van Wyck Mason, Deighton writes with a tongue-in-cheek attitude. The action, brutality, deaths and the slight bit of romance which is allowed to seep into such stories, are all present; but so are the weaknesses of our C.I.A., Scotland Yard a...
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