danaI read that Len Deighton just died, and that he'd written spy novels meant as a rebuttal to Ian Fleming. So I borrowed "The Ipcress File," and am digging in. I'm enjoying his unhurried pace and attention to scene details.
The Japan TimesLen Deighton revolutionized spy fiction with his unnamed, working-class anti-heroes whose cynical realism and bureaucratic worlds offered a sharp contrast to glamorous spies, leaving a lasting mark on the genre. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/03/24/world/len-deighton-dies-aged-97/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #lendeighton #authors #literature #movies #harrypalmer #michaelcaine #sloughhouse #slowhorses #ianfleming #johnlecarre #jamesbond #georgesmiley #bernardsamson
P3KO | Petrified activist 🐧Varsin monet nuoruuden sankarit, kirjoissa tai elokuvissa oli Deightonin luomia, niin oli myös roistot ja pahikset
>> https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/obituary-len-deighton-novelist-and-cookery-writer
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Simon Wood“Outside was February and the first snow of the year. At first it was the sort of snow that a sharp P.R. man would make available to journalists. It sparkled and floated. It was soft yet crisp, like some new, sugar-coated breakfast cereal. Girls wore it in their hair and the Telegraph ran a picture of a statue wearing some." #LenDeighton (Billion Dollar Brain)
“It was the morning of my hundredth birthday. I shaved the final mirror-disc of old tired face under the merciless glare of the bathroom lighting” #LenDeighton (Billion Dollar Brain)
“I gave him the Browning FN pistol and three 13-round magazines. Dawlish put them into a large manilla envelope and wrote ‘gun’ on the flap.” #LenDeighton (Funeral in Berlin)
“Inside the semi-precious light of the stained glass softly dusted the smooth, worn pews, and a complex of brass candlesticks glinted like a medieval oil refinery.” #LenDeighton (Funeral in Berlin)
“Dawlish sprinkled a cold smile over me. He wore the sort of spectacles that customs men tap for hollow noises. He rested them on his large ears and then tucked a handkerchief as big as a bedsheet into his cuff.” #LenDeighton (Funeral in Berlin)
‘You didn’t like the coffee?’ she asked.
‘Is this anarchist’s coffee?’ I asked the girl.
‘Grounds enough for arrest,’ she said.
I suppose someone had said the same thing before. Or maybe they thought of the joke and then built the coffee shop around it.
⁃ #LenDeighton (Spy Story) #coffee