and in two cookery books. He worked for a while as an illustrator in New York and as art director of an advertising agency in London.
Deciding it was time to settle down, Deighton moved to the Dordogne where he started work on his first book,
Since then his work has gone from strength to strength, varying from espionage novels to war, general fiction and non-fiction. The BBC made
As Max Hastings observed, Deighton captured a time and a mood — ‘To those of us who were in our twenties in the 1960s, his books seemed the coolest, funkiest, most sophisticated things we’d ever read’ — and his books have now deservedly become classics.
Примечания
1
Foreign Office Intelligence Unit, part of M.I.6.
2
Permanent Secretary of the Treasury: Head of the Treasury and therefore holds the title ‘Head of H.M. Civil Service’.
3
Financial Secretary to the Treasury, who deals directly with the Prime Minister and directs the Treasury to implement decisions of the Government.
4
‘Friends’: jargon for employees of M.I.5, which is not run by the military (in spite of the title) but by an offshoot of the Home Office.
5
C-SICH: Combined Services Information Clearing House. Part of the Ministry of Defence’s Joint Intelligence Agency. It is a funnel through which all British and Commonwealth intelligence matter is sorted, filed, and distributed. The commercial organizations (which have men to steal secrets from their competitors and safeguard their own) furnish a great volume of matter to C-SICH.
6
Central Register: a collection of dossiers on two million people including foreigners. Central Register is run by M.I.5.
7
Director of Naval Intelligence.
8
Construction of the network to ensure that one detected person doesn’t lead to another.
9
Places where messages are deposited so that collector and depositor do not come face to face.
10
Method of checking network.
11
Seat: A Fiat produced in Spain under licence.
12
See Appendix 4.
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