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
Laughter in the Dark (novel) and Jean-Claude Drouot played Axel Rex. The book features in series 3 episode 8 of the television series Lost. Laughter in the Dark (novel) Laughter in the Dark (Original Russian title: Камера обскура, "Camera obscura") is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov and serialised in "Sovremennye Zapiski" in 1932. The first English translation, "Camera Obscura", was made by Winifred Roy and published in London in 1936 by Johnathan Long, the paperback imprint of Hutchinson Publishing, with the author credited as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin. Nabokov was so displeased by the translation's quality that he undertook his own, which was published in 1938