Department K
# Department K

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. 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.

