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
Tony Schumacher (British author) streets and the night", recounting tales of his time as a police officer and taxi driver in Liverpool. Schumacher was born in Huyton, Merseyside. Tony Schumacher IMDB==References== Tony Schumacher (British author) Tony Schumacher is a British author,screenwriter and broadcaster from Liverpool. His first novel, "The Darkest Hour" is an alternate history, set in a 1940s UK after a German Victory in World War II. It was generally well received. His second book, The British Lion, was released by the William Morrow imprint of HarperCollins, and was also well received in both the USA and UK. The third novel in the