Spy Story (novel) Spy Story (novel) Spy Story is a 1974 spy novel by Len Deighton, which features minor characters from his earlier novels "The IPCRESS File", "Funeral in Berlin", "Horse Under Water", and "Billion Dollar Brain". In common with several of his other early novels, the chapter headings have a "feature". In "Spy Story" these take the form of excerpts from the fictional Studies Centre's rules. As in the earlier "Unnamed hero" novels, we never learn the protagonist's real name, only that he is living under the name Pat Armstrong. Armstrong works for the Studies Centre in London, where various tactical wargame
John Dickinson (author) spy for the aristocratic regime of a small German state. Dickinson's science fiction novel, "WE", was published on 7 January 2010. Philip Ardagh, reviewing the book for "The Guardian", described the setting as "totally convincing and claustrophic" and that "...it is to Dickinson's credit that intellectual argument and internal conflict have been used to create such a strong driving force." John Dickinson (author) John Geoffrey Hyett Dickinson (born June 1962) is an English author of young adult novels. His first novel, "The Cup of the World", was published in 2004. His novel "The Lightstep", written for adults, was published in