Department K

1964 novel

Department K
First edition
AuthorHartley Howard
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreSpy thriller
PublisherCollins
Publication date
1964
Media typePrint

Department K is a 1964 spy thriller novel by the British writer Hartley Howard. It was published in the United States under the alternative title Assignment K.

Film adaptation

In 1968 it was adapted into the film Assignment K directed by Val Guest and starring Stephen Boyd, Camilla Sparv and Michael Redgrave.[1] While the book was mostly centred in London over a few days the film opens this out by including more Continental settings and shifting from the novel's Berlin to Munich.[2]

References

  1. ^ Goble p.230
  2. ^ Burton p.15

Bibliography

  • Burton, Alan. Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960. Vernon Press, 2018.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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