London, March 17, 2026 (AFP) - Len Deighton, spy novelist who created the anti-Bond

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2026-03-17

British writer Len Deighton, who has died at 97, created the sardonic working-class spy played by Michael Caine in the 1965 Cold War film "The Ipcress File". Deighton "passed away peacefully on Sunday", his literary agent said, calling him "one of the greatest spy and thriller writers of the twentieth century". Deighton's thick-bespectacled agent provided an antidote to the debonair Navy officer James Bond created by Ian Fleming. The character's......

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