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Critical Essay by Martin Hillman
[XPD deals with the] hardly original notion of modern spies and Nazi leftovers—in this case, some incriminating documents, part of a Nazi treasure-hoard some of...
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Critical Essay by John Sutherland
The XPD of Deighton's enigmatic title [XPD] should be glossed as 'expedient demise'. His latest blockbuster is based on the factoid that there ar...
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Critical Essay by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Somebody once told me that to write a book for the movies you must do it in episodes—Act 1, Scenes 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on…. If you write spy novel...
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Critical Essay by Anatole Broyard
Len Deighton's "XPD" is a complicated mess without a single character who is interesting enough to make us want to unravel it. The book has to do...
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Critical Essay by Martin Hillman
