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    Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy

    By Len Deighton

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    A Soviet space scientist defects to win academic freedom, but western intelligence has other plans for him, and sends an unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File - to look after him. But what follows is a blood-streaked trail across three continents…

    Twinkle, Twinkle Little Spy reveals a more mature Deighton exploring relationships between couples: professional rivals and private allies, spy and counter-spy, master and slave. some are drawn together mutual comfort, others for exploitation. With an uncanny feeling for landscape, he begins his story in the awesome emptiness and remorseless heat of the Sahara desert. From there a trail of blood leads to Manhattan, Paris, Dublin and halfway back across Africa.

    In a narrative as compelling as it is tantalizing, Deighton surpasses all his previous triumphs and holds the reader spellbound to the very last page.

    This new reissue includes a foreword from the cover designer, Oscar-winning filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman, and a brand new introduction by Len Deighton, which offers a fascinating insight into the writing of the story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateJun 7, 2012
    ISBN9780007458394
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    • 4/5
      I've read a couple of the books in the Secret Hero / Secret File / Harry Palmer series and this is the best one of those that I've read. It was enjoyable from start to finish with an aura of mystery as loyalties were tested and motivations exposed.It's essentially a buddy copy story rehashed into the spy genre with our protagonist teaming up with a CIA operative to bring out Professor Bekuv from Russia to assist in finding out who is leaking American scientific knowledge to Russia.Well worth a look if you've enjoyed some of Deighton's other works, can certainly be read as a stand alone novel without reading the prior books in the series.
    • 2/5
      Not very well remembered, so not a good Deighton... set in the sahara, with the retrieval of a defector as the opening incident. I think it was written to tell the readers how bad a writer Ian Fleming was...
    • 4/5
      [Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy] - Len Deighton ****Also released as 'To Catch a Falling Spy' this is my first book by the author. Set during the cold war we are introduced to the world of American and Soviet double agents, no one can be trusted and no situation is as it seems. We follow an unnamed British agent and Major Man as they pick up a defected soviet Russian scientist from the desert but can they keep the promises made and has he been entirely truthful?A thriller with plenty of action and numerous subplots using well developed characters, the kind of book where you have to follow the storyline carefully to fully understand what is going on. Recommended for fans Of jack Higgins or Ian Fleming, it has dated a little over the years but still stands the test of time. Will look out for more Deighton books.