Posted in News CHRISTOPHER STEVENS on The author Len Deighton who has died aged 97: The master spy writer whose high-octane plots gripped ‘like Princess Anne’s jodhpurs’ March 18, 2026 Len Deighton, bestselling author of thrillers that reinvented the spy novel, who has died aged 97, didn’t much like his job. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-15655599/christopher-stevens-ipcress-file-author-len-deighton-died.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490