Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONDON (AP) — Len Deighton, author of best-selling spy thrillers including ‘The Ipcress File,’ dies at 97. Sip passionflower tea, ...

LONDON — 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 Sunday. No ...

Writer whose ‘anti-Bond’ hero in his 1962 novel The Ipcress File had a seismic impact on spy fiction When he made the remark that he was “the most illiterate writer ever”, in an interview with Argosy ...

LEN Deighton has died aged 97 after almost half a century as one of Britain’s most beloved spy novel authors. The writer died today having penned 39 books in a much celebrated career which “changed ...

Len Deighton, creator of Harry Palmer, one of the world's most famous spy characters, has died aged 97. The British writer sold millions of books and was translated into 20 languages over a career ...

Len Deighton, the prolific British spy novelist whose best-selling books of betrayal and deception skewered espionage services in the East and the West, and sharply mocked English social strictures, ...

LONDON — Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died. He was 97. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

His Cold War thrillers “The Ipcress File” and “Funeral in Berlin” brought a documentary-style realism to the spy genre. By William Grimes Len Deighton, the British author who brought a ...