Len Deighton, the prolific British author best known for his spy novels, has died at the age of 97. The son of a chauff­eur and a private cook for a wealthy London family, Deighton was a military ...

Mr. Deighton wrote some 20 spy novels, including "The Ipcress File," and more than a dozen works of nonfiction as well as screenplays, television scripts, cookbooks, and travel guides.

Len Deighton, bestselling author of thrillers that reinvented the spy novel, who has died aged 97, didn't much like his job.

LONDON: British writer Len Deighton, who created the sardonic working-class spy played by Michael Caine in the 1965 Cold War film "The Ipcress File", has died, his literary agent ...

Len Deighton, bestselling author of thrillers that reinvented the spy novel, who has died aged 97, didn't much like his job.

LONDON (AP) — Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died. He was 97. Deighton’s literary agent, Tim Bates, said he died ...

MOST people are content to just read a novel on holiday.  But Len Deighton, who has died aged 97, decided to write one while ...

Deighton was best known for his spy novels including The Ipcress File (1962), which was turned into a Bafta-winning film ...

In the spring of 1960 a 31-year-old former chef and flight attendant called Len Deighton got in touch with the Daily Express to pitch an idea he called the ‘cookstrip’. It had come about because he ...

His Cold War thrillers “The Ipcress File” and “Funeral in Berlin” brought a documentary-style realism to the spy genre.

Len Deighton, creator of Harry Palmer, one of the world's most famous spy characters, has died aged 97. The British writer ...