John le Carré made spy fiction intellectually respectable; Len Deighton, who has died aged 97, made it hip. Although he ...

These authors became the most popular in Russia and Russian readers, like the rest of the world, looked forward to a new novel by le Carre and Forsyth, which always tackled present-day problems, ...

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John le Carré, the pseudonym under which David Cornwell (1931-2020) wrote novels that redefined spy fiction and revealed the darkest, brightest, and most ambiguous sides of the pre- and post-Cold War ...

In the novels of John le Carré, the term “tradecraft” is a shorthand for the techniques of covert intelligence gathering: the “dead drops” used to pass messages from spy to spy, the surveillance ...

Spy novel star, Len Deighton, has sadly died, aged 97, after being credited with 'changing the nature of British spy fiction' ...

Deighton’s first novel, “The IPCRESS File,” helped set the tone of cool and gritty 1960s thrillers and was made into a film ...

British writer Len Deighton, who has died at 97, created the sardonic working-class spy played by Michael Caine in the 1965 ...

In the spring of 1960 a 31-year-old former chef and flight attendant called Len Deighton got in touch with the Daily Express ...

Len Deighton, a prolific British writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died ...