Spy Story

SPY STORY — the new spy thriller by the author of The Ipcress File, An Expensive Place to Die and other bestsellers once more establishes Len Deighton as the true king of the genre.

'This is a vintage Len Deighton thriller… Too laconic for an old-fashioned cliff hanger, Mr Deighton yet produces a sort of dispassionate cerebral excitement which like the polar ice itself, is nine-tenths submerged and all the more menacing for that'

TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

'Fascination of war games, authentic thrills of chase and capture, and our hero's jokey approach to love, life and his colleagues can't disguise the true horror of what he's doing. Impressive'

Sunday telegraph

'The dialogue has a freshly fired flavour and the Realpolitik a way-out plausibility… The tone may be realistic but the spirit is essentially up-beat and romantic. Behind the flip cracks and the technology, the spirit of Buchan stirs again'

THE GUARDIAN

'SPY STORY gets closer to what Kipling called The Great Game of international espionage than any fiction of recent years. Some of the details about underwater monitoring are certain to raise eyebrows, if nothing more, in the Pentagon and the Admiralty'

DREW MIDDLETON, Military Editor, New York Times