XPD means expedient demise: if this stamp appears on your file, you're as good as dead-and anyone who learns about a secret meeting between Churchill and Hitler instantly earns an XPD. When Hitler's minutes of the meeting threaten to surface, the MI6, CIA, KGB, and a group of influential German busi[...]

The exhilarating second book in the "Game, Set, Match" series has Bernard Samson racing around the globe laying the groundwork for KGB major Erich Stinnes to defect to London Intelligence. Samson has a lot to prove in the way of loyalty after his wife's defection to the KGB, and her help in convinci[...]

An unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File - is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackmail and hidden motive, where friend and enemy become indistinguishable.[...]

Computer games run in a classified war studies centre in London. Nuclear submarines prowl beneath Arctic ice. And war games go into real time. Patrick Armstrong - possibly the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File - is sent to investigate.[...]

Despite the volumes written about World War II, many questions remain un-answered. In this balanced and thoughtful chronicle, historian and World War II expert Len Deighton dares to explore intriguing questions, including why the British weren't more prepared for the Blitz and why Hitler failed to t[...]