Raymond Hawkey time at the Royal College of Art Hawkey first encountered Len Deighton when Deighton (another RCA scholarship student at that time) gatecrashed a literary party that Hawkey was helping to organise. Instead of ejecting the intruder, Hawkey found much in common with him and they became "lifelong friends" (Dempsey, "ibid"). In 1962, Hawkey was Deighton's choice to design the cover of his first novel "The IPCRESS File", which some regard as the template for the covers of all subsequent airport novels. He went on to design covers for Deighton's books, including "Horse Under Water", "Funeral in Berlin" and "The Action
The First Law and concluded that the book was "a marvellous follow-up to his highly praised "The Heroes"." The First Law The First Law is a fantasy series written by British author Joe Abercrombie. It consists of a trilogy, three stand-alone novels and a number of novellas set in the same world. Abercrombie has finished the first draft for another trilogy set in the First Law world which will be set after the 3rd stand alone novel and serve as a sequel to the original trilogy. The trilogy is published by Gollancz in the UK and Pyr in the United States. The stand-alone