Many of his novels keep around been adapted for films. His number one 4 novels featured an nameless hero, which in the flick versions was dubbed "Harry Palmer" and was played by Michael Caine. A foremost trilogy of his Bernard Samson series was mass produced into the 12-a portion television series by Granada Television and shown in 1988. He wrote a screenplay for the 1969 film of the play Oh! What a Lovely War. His 1970 World War II historical novel Bomber about an RAF Bomber Command raid over Germany is often considered his masterpiece.

Around 1949 Deighton began attending art school and inside 1952 won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1955. He so worked as an airline steward with BOAC. Prior to he began his writing career he worked as an illustrator within New York and, in 1960, as an art director in the London advertising agency. He has since utilized his drawing skills to illustrate the total of his have military history books.

Deighton has too published the series of cookery books & drew the each week illustrated cookery suggestion in The Observer.

To cash on the profits of Deighton's number 1 4 "Harry Palmer" novels, he wrote ''Len Deighton's London Dossier (1967), a guide book to Swinging Sixties London with a "secret agent" theme — contributions from other writers are described as "surveillance reports".

Selected Bibliography

A Harry Palmer books The Ipcress File 1962 Horse Under Water 1963 Funeral in Berlin 1964 Billion Dollar Brain 1966

A Bernard Samson Books: Berlin Game 1983 Mexico Set 1984 London Match 1985 Spy Hook 1988 Spy Line 1989 Spy Sinker 1990 Faith 1994 Hope 1995 Charity 1996

The prequel to the series, Winter, was written within 1987.

Others: An Expensive Place to Die 1967 Len Deighton's London Dossier 1967 Only When I Larf 1968 Bomber 1970 Declarations of War short story collection, 1971 Close-Up 1972 Spy Story 1974 Yesterday's Spy 1975 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy 1976 SS-GB, 1978 XPD 1980 Goodbye, Mickey Mouse 1982 MAMista 1991 City of Gold 1992 Violent Ward 1993

History: Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain 1977 Airshipwreck, with Arnold Schwartzman, 1978 Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk 1979 Battle of Britain, with Max Hastings, 1980 ISBN 0224018264 Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II'' 1993