Len Deighton bibliography
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Sep 23, 2026
Vincent M. GaineHOST
There were also, I think, pretty much any spy film post James Bond had to define itself in relation to James Bond.
Vincent M. GaineHOST
And probably the key example of that from that same period would be adaptations of the work of Len Dayton.
Vincent M. GaineHOST
things like The Ipcress File, featuring the character of Harry Palmer, who was like the anti-Bond, much as Alec Le Mans, I think, character in The Spy Who Came From the Cold is, in that regard.
Vincent M. GaineHOST
But absolutely right.
Tim ShipmanHOST
But it is labyrinthine.
Tim ShipmanHOST
What I would say to those who've not read this book yet is this is the closest David has written to a Len Dayton book in terms of the sort of infighting, the politics of the situation as much as the kind of tradecraft and a situation where the sort of bureaucratic intelligence war is to the fore.
Tim ShipmanHOST
So tell us what you can, and then we'll come to Bobby, who I want to talk about.
David McCloskeyGUEST
I mean, the story is essentially new U.S. administration comes in.
Sheldon HallHOST
sharing some of its Bractean qualities, but presented as a kind of highly self-conscious music hall performance.
Sheldon HallHOST
The film was put together initially by the actor John Mills, another regular associate of Attenborough, and Len Dayton, who actually wrote the screenplay, but is not credited on the film.
Sheldon HallHOST
In fact, highly unusually, there is no screenplay credit on the movie itself.
Sheldon HallHOST
But Len Dayton, the author of spy novels... was the principal creative figure behind this reconception of the film.
Sheldon HallHOST
So it's a kind of allegory of the First World War presented as a musical theatre entertainment.
Sheldon HallHOST
It's initially set in and largely takes place in Brighton Pavilion and on Brighton Pier.
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Sheldon HallHOST
But it doesn't move me in the way that it did when I was 15, for
Christopher HallHOST
instance.
JeffHOST
However, well-written.
JeffHOST
Today, the relative merits of Ian Fleming, John Le Carre, and Len Dayton are discussed at women's literary lunch clubs with the respected fervor once accorded only to such writers as Herman Wolk or Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.
JeffHOST
I mean, he doesn't tend to feel like a bitter person, but you get a little bit of that there, right? I mean, that's
Jeremy DunsGUEST
funny.
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Jeremy DunsGUEST
So he was so influential with those early books.
Jeremy DunsGUEST
So there were a lot of writers who were writing things that were ambler-ish.
Jeremy DunsGUEST
So Len Dayton, Gavin Lyle, a lot of these people.
Jeremy DunsGUEST
And they had new, fresh ways of looking at it.
Nathan AbramsGUEST
For those of a certain age, you'll remember that because that was the only time we got to watch them.
Nathan AbramsGUEST
I've also read some of the novels and other spy novels like Ken Follett and Len Dayton and John le Carré.
Nathan AbramsGUEST
And I've also written about some spy films, James Bond and Munich, which we're going to talk about in more detail, as well as, in particular, what I've been particularly interested in from an academic or sort of slightly academic perspective is the representation of the Israeli spy, specifically the Mossad, over the years and how that may or may not have changed.
Nathan AbramsGUEST
So that's my background.
Marlon JamesHOST
I can see why some people...
Marlon JamesHOST
To me, Len Dayton was a good midway between the two of them.
Jake MorrisseyHOST
Yes.
Jake MorrisseyHOST
Frederick Forsythe.
Andrew KeenHOST
I
Wendy LesserGUEST
mean, by later people looking back, like Mick Herron and Ian McEwan, but also by Len Dayton.
Wendy LesserGUEST
The Berlin Game trilogy, starting with Berlin Game, is one of my favorite books about the city.
Wendy LesserGUEST
Didn't
Andrew KeenHOST
he just die, Len Dayton?
Wendy LesserGUEST
He did.
Wendy LesserGUEST
He just died in the last six months or so, and it caused me to reread not only the whole Berlin trilogy, but the two trilogies that came after that.