'Deighton's best... until the next' Daily Mail 'The poet of the spy story' Sunday Times 'A master of fictional espionage' Daily Mail 'Deighton is back in his original milieu, the bleak spy world of betrayers and betrayed' Observer 'Deighton is a marvel... few authors writing in the rigorous and finite genre of spy fiction have mastered the craft as well as Deighton... Mexico Set is a pure tale, told by an author at the height of his power' Chicago Tribune

Born in London, Len Deighton served in the RAF before graduating from the Royal College of Art (which recently elected him a Senior Fellow). While in New York City working as a magazine illustrator he began writing his first novel, The Ipcress File, which was published in 1962. He is now the author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction. At present living in Europe, he has, over the years, lived with his family in ten different countries from Austria to Portugal.