History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton draws on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these myths and point towards a more objective – and even more inspiring – truth.

Three con artists are on the make, and making millions. There's Silas, the leader, slick and self-assured; Liz, his glamorous lover; and Bob, the young cockney upstart (who's also falling for Liz). As this uneasy trio's swindles take them from New York high-rises to sixties London, corrupt governments to, finally, the ultimate con in the Middle East, will their luck start to run out?

Norfolk, December, 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at an air base; their job is to escort bombers over Germany. Each mission could be their last. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is a vivid evocation of wartime England and a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war. At the center of the novel are two young men – Captain Jamie Farebrother, estranged son of a colonel, and cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed “Mickey Mouse”), well on his way to becoming Am...

“You will be hooked from the first chapter and enjoy every line… a superb novel.”—Sunday ExpressThe Berlin Wall has fallen. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramón and his desperate men hiding in the jungle, cradling their AK-47s, dusting off the Semtex, and still dreaming of world revolution.MAMista takes us from the back corridors of American power in Washington, where oil and arms deals dictate who lives and who dies, to the violent capital of S...

“What Deighton did for the Battle of Britain in Fighter he has done for the land-war here… A rattlingly good yarn.”—GuardianThis is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking behind the atta...

“Written with economy and grace . . . often exciting, sometimes eerie, always sad.”—Evening StandardLen Deighton’s only collection of short fiction explores the devastating experiences of soldiers across twenty-three centuries of warfare, from Hannibal’s march on Rome to the jungles of Vietnam.Across these sharp, unsparing stories, Deighton’s deep compassion for the ordinary soldier is matched only by his hatred for war and the ways it makes machin...

"A blistering read . . . the guessing game continues until the final page."—Time OutIn Len Deighton's razor-sharp noir, criminal lawyer Mickey Murphy gets entangled in a complex scam and murder investigation backdropped by a riot-torn Los AngelesDowntown Los Angeles, 1992. Mickey Murphy is a rumpled criminal defense attorney scraping by with a shabby office, an ex-wife bleeding him for money, and clients who would plead the Fifth—i...

“Every page glows with the excitement of discovery . . . wonderful.”—Geoff Dyer, The GuardianDrawing on Len Deighton's deep understanding of ordinary soldiers and the strengths and weaknesses of the leaders who sent them into battle, Blood, Tears, and Folly is a sweeping and unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War.Rooted in the personal accounts of the soldiers themselves and ranging across six theaters—from the Bat...

"Immense skill . . . a stylish and stimulating performance."—The Times (UK)Marshall Stone is an international superstar and charismatic member of Hollywood's elite. Abundantly blessed with charm, genius and wealth, the one gift he most desires—everlasting youth—seems within his grasp when an eminent writer begins the star's biography. But painful memories and suppressed scandals threaten to expose the fiction of his life.Meanwhile,...

Steve Champion - flamboyant businessman, former leader of an anti-Nazi network in the Second World War - is a man surrounded by mysteries. There are rumors he is still in the spying business. The Department are nervous, so Champion's oldest wartime ally is sent to the South of France to investigate. It's time to re-open the file on yesterday's spy, whatever the consequences.

“A stunning spy story… incomparable.” – The GuardianIt’s 1979, and a group of former SS officers are devising a plan to seize power in West Germany. XPD is a brilliant novel constructed around a supposition that Churchill secretly met with Hitler in 1940 to discuss terms of a British surrender. British agent Boyd Stuart is intent on preventing those wartime documents from becoming public. XPD – short for “expedient demise,” the code used ...

"The pace of the story is compulsive . . . it is a real pleasure to be swallowed up in Deighton's description of wartime Cairo."—Daily TelegraphJanuary 1942. Rommel, the fabled "Desert Fox," has pushed back the British Army three hundred miles in a matter of weeks. His seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. And Rommel has a spy in the city—a source so well-informed that the German command...