XPD

For other uses, see XPD (disambiguation).

XPD
First edition hardbound cover image
Author	Len Deighton
Genre	Spy, historical fiction
Published	Hutchinson (UK) Knopf (US)
Media type	Book
Pages	339
ISBN	9780394512587
OCLC	7177002

XPD is a spy novel by Len Deighton, published in 1981, and set in 1979, roughly contemporaneous with the time it was written. It concerns a plan by a group of former SS officers to seize power in West Germany, in which they intend to publish some wartime documents about a (fictional) secret meeting between Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler in June 1940, and the efforts of a British agent, Boyd Stuart, to prevent the documents becoming public.

The title is the code used by the Secret Intelligence Service in the novel to refer to assassinations it carries out, short for "expedient demise".

The novel was dramatised in eight parts by Michael Bakewell for BBC radio in 1985.

Works by Len Deighton

"Unnamed hero" novels

The IPCRESS File (1962)
Horse Under Water (1963)
Funeral in Berlin (1964)
Billion-Dollar Brain (1966)
An Expensive Place to Die (1967)
Spy Story (1972)
Yesterday's Spy (1975)
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy (1976)

Bernard Samson novels

Berlin Game (1983)
Mexico Set (1984)
London Match (1985)
Winter (1987)
Spy Hook (1988)
Spy Line (1989)
Spy Sinker (1990)
Faith (1994)
Hope (1995)
Charity (1996)

Other novels

Only When I Larf (1968)
Bomber (1970)
Close-Up (1972)
SS-GB (1978)
XPD (1981)
Goodbye, Mickey Mouse (1982)
MAMista (1991)
City of Gold (1992)
Violent Ward, (1993)

Short story collection

Declarations of War (1971)

Non-fiction

Où Est le Garlic (1965)
Len Deighton's Action Cookbook (1965)
Len Deighton's London Dossier (1967)
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain (1977)
Airshipwreck (1978)
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk (1979)
Battle of Britain (1980)
Blood, Tears and Folly (1993)
James Bond: My Long and Eventful Search for His Father (2012)

Film adaptations

Harry Palmer	The Ipcress File (1965) Funeral in Berlin (1966) Billion Dollar Brain (1967) Bullet to Beijing (1995) Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)

Other	Only When I Larf (1968) Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) Spy Story (1976)

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