Len Deighton Len Deighton Leonard Cyril Deighton (; born 18 February 1929), known as Len Deighton, is a British author. Deighton is considered one of the top three spy novelists of his time (along with Ian Fleming and John le Carré). In addition he is a highly acclaimed military historian, cookery writer, and graphic artist. "The IPCRESS File" (1962), his first novel, was an instant bestseller and broke the mould of thriller writing. "The Sunday Times" called him "the poet of the spy story". Deighton’s first protagonist – a nameless spy christened Harry Palmer in the films – was made famous worldwide
The File on H. Jennie Ver Steeg from "Booklist", called it a "a witty, multilayered critique of totalitarianism, nationalism, and scholarly objectivity". "Publishers Weekly" referred to it as "an amusing parable" and to Kadare as a "Controversial Albanian dissident". They called the relationship between the govrenor and Dull Baxhaja "a masterpiece of Gogolian comedy". The File on H. The File on H. is a novel by the Albanian author Ismail Kadare. It first appeared in Albanian in 1981 under the title Dosja H. In this often-comic novel, two Homeric scholars from Ireland by way of Harvard University plan to investigate the tradition of oral