Publishers Weekly, July 12th, 1993
Though most authors would give their eyeteeth for publicity, Len Deighton, best known for his British espionage thrillers beginning with The Ipcress File, hasn't granted an interview in at least 10 years. The publicist at HarperCollins, who is trying to promote Deighton's new book, Violent Ward (Fiction Forecasts, June 21), has never spoken to the author, doesn't know where he lives, doesn't know if he's married or if he has children. To set up an interview during Deighton's visit to Los Angeles, PW calls the publicist, who faxes the agent, Jonathan Clowes, in London, who, one assumes, conta...
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