His Cold War thrillers “The Ipcress File” and “Funeral in Berlin” brought a documentary-style realism to the spy genre.
Len Deighton, who has died aged 97, was acclaimed “the poet of the spy novel”, having almost single-handedly rescued spy ...
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Mr. Deighton wrote some 20 spy novels, including "The Ipcress File," and more than a dozen works of nonfiction as well as ...