Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy by Len Deighton

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy by Len Deighton

'The master at his peak' Daily Telegraph

A Russian scientist is defecting to the West, in order to realize his dreams of contacting extra-terrestrial life among the stars. But when an insubordinate British agent and a top CIA operative are sent to the Sahara desert to bring him in, things don't go to plan. The result is a violent chase stretching across three continents, where loyalties - between spies, partners, nations and lovers - become fatally divided.

'Classic, world-ranging, marvellously knowledgeable ... in a word, quality' The Times

'Tightly and complicatedly plotted, so credible in detail' Financial Times

A PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL

The master at his peak* Daily Telegraph *
Classic, world-ranging, marvellously knowledgeable ... in a word, quality. * The Times *
For sheer readability he has no peer. * Evening Standard *

Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London. He did his national service in the RAF, went to the Royal College of Art and designed many book jackets, including the original UK edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The enormous success of his first spy novel, The IPCRESS File (1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following decades. These varied from historical fiction (Bomber, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction (SS-GB) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War (Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly).

His spy novels chart the twists and turns of Britain and the Cold War in ways which now give them a unique flavour. They preserve a world in which Europe contains many dictatorships, in which the personal can be ruined by the ideological and where the horrors of the Second World War are buried under only a very thin layer of soil. Deighton's fascination with technology, his sense of humour and his brilliant evocation of time and place make him one of the key British espionage writers, alongside John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré.

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ISBN 13	9780241505533
ISBN 10	0241505534
Title	Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy
Author	Len Deighton
Series	Penguin Modern Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2021-09-30
Number of pages	240
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