Len Deighton, best-selling novelist with wry take on espionage, dies at 97

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, reflecting his own rise from a childhood far from privilege, died March 15. He was 97. Get concise a...

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