Len Deighton, spy novelist who created the anti-Bond - Manchester Times

August 23, 2026

Len Deighton, spy novelist who created the anti-Bond

March 17, 2026

A 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…

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