Xpd - Paperback

by Len Deighton (Author)

"A stunning spy story... incomparable." - The Guardian

It's 1979, and a group of former SS officers are devising a plan to seize power in West Germany. XPD is a brilliant novel constructed around a supposition that Churchill secretly met with Hitler in 1940 to discuss terms of a British surrender. British agent Boyd Stuart is intent on preventing those wartime documents from becoming public. XPD - short for "expedient demise," the code used by the Secret Intelligence Service to refer to the assassinations it carries out - is another stunning novel from Len Deighton.

Author Biography

LEN DEIGHTON (1929-2026) was one of Britain's preeminent thriller writers, considered a defining voice of the genre alongside John Le Carré and Graham Greene. Known for his wit and his scrupulous research, Deighton wrote more than thirty books ranging from espionage, historical, and dystopian alternative fiction to brilliant nonfiction on the Second World War. Never out of print, with over 30 million copies sold and multiple adaptations for film and TV, his books have left an enduring mark on global culture, influencing everything from Motörhead to Quentin Tarantino.