Reply To: The R.I.P. Thread
I’d like to offer up Len Deighton to this thread. Not sure how well known he is outside of the UK, but he wrote The Ipcress File and a host of other spy novels, plus wartime and post-war thrillers, non-fiction and a cook book (!)
Long one of my favourite authors, his magnum opus is the trilogy of trilogies generally referred to as the Game, Set and Match set (also Hook, Line and Sinker and Faith Hope and Charity), and the tenth book of nine, Winter, a prequel of sorts. Made into a tv series in the 80s, Deighton suppressed it after one showing I think due to casting issues. It’s available on YouTube, with the great Ian Holm as dual German/English spy Bernie (Bernd) Samson.
RIP that man.