Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy

Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy
Len Deighton

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.

LEN DEIGHTON

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy

Copyright

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by

Jonathan Cape Ltd in 1976

Copyright © Len Deighton 1976

Introduction copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 2012

Cover designer’s note © Arnold Schwartzman 2012

Len Deighton asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Ebook Edition © June 2012 ISBN: 9780007458394

Version: 2017-05-23

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‘I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night’

Epitaph on grave of unknown astronomer

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u11af2f65-d115-55b5-a364-096210790529)

Copyright (#u6398e12e-4c00-5ec5-9617-0ceb1c782360)

Epigraph (#u2d23779a-e1d5-507b-938d-a970c6ec1a81)

Introduction (#ua86ded2f-2a89-572e-aeb9-848636b69bed)

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