#lendeighton — Public Fediverse posts

I 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.

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Len 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

Len 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

Len 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

Len 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

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

#LenDeighton

🔴 Midnight in Berlin by Speckled Band is out now to stream and download 👇

https://youtube.com/shorts/5gTZdH0Z2dg?si=WSlLp6SB1AcDha2g

#coldwar #lendeighton #jamesbond #johnlecarre #berlin #spies #music #newmusic

“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

“There was a pot of coffee clipped into an electric contraption that kept it warm for hours. I poured some into Marjorie’s cup and sipped it. It tasted like iron filings with a dash of quinine.” #LenDeighton (Spy Story) #coffee

“I ate an early peach, and put a blue cornflower in my buttonhole. “

RIP #LenDeighton, one of my absolute favourite writers.

Tristesse... On a appris le décès de Len Deighton, auteur de SS-GB, un classique de l'uchronie...

Qui l'a lu ?

#Uchronie #LenDeighton

https://www.europesays.com/si/28577/ Umrl je pisatelj in oče Bondovega antipoda Len Deighton #DosjeIpcress #Entertainment #HarryPalmer #JamesBond #LenDeighton #SI #Slovene #Slovenia #Slovenija #Slovenščina #VohunskiRomani #Zabava

A few years back when #IdrisElba was being mentioned a lot for the next #JamesBond , I thought "No, he should be the next #HarryPalmer !"

#LenDeighton

A few years back when #IdrisElba was being mentioned a lot for the next #JamesBond , I thought "No, he should be the next #HarryPalmer !"

#LenDeighton

A few years back when #IdrisElba was being mentioned a lot for the next #JamesBond , I thought "No, he should be the next #HarryPalmer !"

#LenDeighton

A few years back when #IdrisElba was being mentioned a lot for the next #JamesBond , I thought "No, he should be the next #HarryPalmer !"

#LenDeighton

A few years back when #IdrisElba was being mentioned a lot for the next #JamesBond , I thought "No, he should be the next #HarryPalmer !"

#LenDeighton

This one sounds like my kind of thing.
A disappointing farce.

#LenDeighton

Len Deighton, spy novelist and author of The Ipcress File, dies aged 97 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/17/len-deighton-spy-novelist-author-dies-aged-97 #Books #Culture #LenDeighton #Fiction #Thrillers

What a fine long life well lived (bizarrely, we've recently been re-watching the Michael Caine trilogy of movies but time to re-read at least some of the novels now. And to find his Action Cookbook, which I know my dad rated:)
Had no idea he'd written the screenplay for 'Oh, What a Lovely War!' and hope that'll be broadcast/streamed/screened again ASAP
#LenDeighton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Deighton

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116243835142961281

Incredible innings for #LenDeighton. RIP. Might have to watch The Ipcress File again …

RIP #LenDeighton

British author #LenDeighton has died 📚 #fiction #spy #spyfiction #TheIPCRESSFile #FuneralinBerlin #BilliinDollarBrain #SpyStory #espionage

Loquacious #SitecoreLunch today. Discussed:

🫙 Mason jars
🌳 #BongAppétit
🎶 #GeorgeClinton
🍸 #Kirkland spirits
☕ Afternoon coffee
🧪 Lab-grade glassware
🔠 The Great Vowel Shift
🎅 #Christmas decorations
🏆 #SitecoreMVP applications
📗 #LenDeighton's Action Cook Book

See you same time next week! 🥪🥗

Billion-Dollar Brain

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/05/27/billion-dollar-brain/

Funeral in Berlin

https://library.hrmtc.com/2023/11/27/funeral-in-berlin/

Watching Ipcress File with dad, remember reading Len Deighton in my teens. Reached the classic 60s brainwashing scene, something you rarely see in a modern spy film, but laundering of cognitive processes was all the rage back then.

#film #brainwashing #HarryPalmer #books #MichaelCaine #IpcressFile #LenDeighton #SpyFilm #1960s #1960sFilm

Watching Ipcress File with dad, remember reading Len Deighton in my teens. Reached the classic 60s brainwashing scene, something you rarely see in a modern spy film, but laundering of cognitive processes was all the rage back then.

#film #brainwashing #HarryPalmer #books #MichaelCaine #IpcressFile #LenDeighton #SpyFilm #1960s #1960sFilm

Watching Ipcress File with dad, remember reading Len Deighton in my teens. Reached the classic 60s brainwashing scene, something you rarely see in a modern spy film, but laundering of cognitive processes was all the rage back then.

#film #brainwashing #HarryPalmer #books #MichaelCaine #IpcressFile #LenDeighton #SpyFilm #1960s #1960sFilm

Watching Ipcress File with dad, remember reading Len Deighton in my teens. Reached the classic 60s brainwashing scene, something you rarely see in a modern spy film, but laundering of cognitive processes was all the rage back then.

#film #brainwashing #HarryPalmer #books #MichaelCaine #IpcressFile #LenDeighton #SpyFilm #1960s #1960sFilm

Watching Ipcress File with dad, remember reading Len Deighton in my teens. Reached the classic 60s brainwashing scene, something you rarely see in a modern spy film, but laundering of cognitive processes was all the rage back then.

#film #brainwashing #HarryPalmer #books #MichaelCaine #IpcressFile #LenDeighton #SpyFilm #1960s #1960sFilm

7 spy movies to know me better

Secret Agent, Alfred Hitchcock 1936
Our Man in Havana, Carol Reed 1959
From Russia With Love, Terence Young 1962
Secret Mission Lady Chaplin, Alberto De Martino, Sergio Grieco 1966
Billion Dollar Brain, Ken Russell 1967
A Dandy in Aspic, Anthony Mann 1968
Telefon, Don Siegel 1977

#FilmMastodon #spymovies #hitchcock #alfred hitchcock #TerenceYoung #JamesBond #DonSiegel #AnthonyMann #KenRussell #LenDeighton #eurospy #eurospymovies #cultmovies #classicmovies

I'll give this a go too.... #bookstodon
Seven favourite authors...
#MonicaDickens
#JohnLeCarre
#ENesbit
#LenDeighton
#JohnGalsworthy
#AJDevlin
#ColinDexter

@mackenzieflohr
Authors I devour:
#Dickens
#MickHerron
#leCarre
#LenDeighton
#joNesbo
#caihmODonnell
#AnttiTuomainen
#nordicNoir