Editing Len Deighton (section)

===Legacy and influence===
Deighton's work has been acknowledged by the thriller writer [[Jeremy Duns]] as being an influence on his own work.{{sfn|Duns|2009}} In ''[[Letters from Burma]]'', the politician [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] mentions reading Deighton's books, while under [[Aung San Suu Kyi#House arrest|house arrest]]. Suu Kyi wrote that she was passionate about [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s tales of [[Sherlock Holmes]] and the spy novels of le Carré and Deighton.{{sfn|"Back to prayer for Suu Kyi". ''Capital News''}} When asked by [[Christie's]] about his love for [[Indian art]] and how he started his collection, the writer [[V. S. Naipaul]] credited Deighton. "I met Len Deighton, the thriller writer, at dinner many years ago. He demonstrated to me that Indian art could really be approachable. I bought from&nbsp;... [[Maggs Bros Ltd|Maggs]] because of Len Deighton pushing me onto [them] as being a very fair dealer, saying that they do not charge you much more than they should. That's a marvellous thing to be told".{{sfn|"Collectors & their collections: V.S. Naipaul". ''Christie's''}}

Deighton's 1970 novel ''Bomber'' was listed in [[Anthony Burgess]]'s 1984 work ''[[Ninety-Nine Novels]]'' as one of the 99 best novels in English since 1939.{{sfn|Burgess|1984|p=1}} ''[[Bomber (album)|Bomber]]'', the third album of the rock group [[Motörhead]], was named after the novel, as the band's singer, [[Lemmy]], was reading it at the time they were recording the album.{{sfn|Grow|2015}}