Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London. He did his national service in the RAF, went to the Royal College of Art and designed many book jackets, including the original UK edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The enormous success of his first spy novel, The IPCRESS File (1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following decades. These varied from historical fiction (Bomber, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction (SS-GB) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War (Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly). 
 
His spy novels chart the twists and turns of Britain and the Cold War in ways which now give them a unique flavour. They preserve a world in which Europe contains many dictatorships, in which the personal can be ruined by the ideological and where the horrors of the Second World War are buried under only a very thin layer of soil. Deighton's fascination with technology, his sense of humour and his brilliant evocation of time and place make him one of the key British espionage writers, alongside John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré.

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A queen in exile as a traitor. 
Lara has watched Ithicana be conquered by her own father. But when she learns her husband, Aren, has been captured in battle, Lara knows her father is only keeping him alive to lure in his traitorous daughter. 
It is bait she fully intends to take. 
Risking her life, Lara returns to free the Bridge Kingdom and its king using her father's greatest weapons - her sisters. But her greatest adversary of all might be the very man she's trying to free. 
And Lara must decide who she is fighting for . . .

The Traitor Queen

She was raised as a soldier. And as an heir to an empire. 
If Zarrah knows anything, it is that the Veliant family murdered her mother and that vengeance will be hers. 
The Endless War between Maridrina and Valcotta has devastated Zarrah's people. She is determined to do whatever it takes to destroy the Maridrinian forces and kill their leader, the Veliant prince. 
But after a chance encounter with a handsome Maridrinian, Zarrah must question whether justice is truly hers to take. 
And she Zarrah must decide . . . war or peace?

The Inadequate Heir

Newly crowned as king of Maridrina, Keris watches powerless as his forbidden relationship with Zarrah is exposed. 
 
He knows there is only one way to save her when she is imprisoned by the Empress: to ally with the kingdom he nearly destroyed. 
 
Zarrah, held captive on the dreaded Devil's Island, faces two choices: prove her loyalty to the Empress who condemned her or die a traitor. 
 
But dare Zarrah seek a third path: a rebellion to overthrow tyranny entwined with a destiny she must fight to claim. 
 
Facing impossible odds, Keris and Zarrah must somehow find their way back to each other, before it's too late . . .

The Endless War

A warrior princess - Lara how always known two things - that King Aren of The Bridge Kingdom is her enemy and that she must be the one to bring him to his knees. 
When she's sent as his bride Lara is prepared to do whatever it takes to kill the king. 
But when she lays her eyes on this man she begins to question whether he truly is a villain. As her feelings deepen for Aren she must choose which kingdom to save and which to destroy

The Bridge Kingdom

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