Author Len Deighton, center, poses for a photo with actors Frank Windsor, left and Sam West, who appear in a Radio 4 dramatization of Len Deighton’s book, “Bomber Harris,” Feb. 8, 1995. (AP Photo) ...

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, ...

LONDON(AP) — Len Deighton, author of best-selling spy thrillers including ‘The Ipcress File,’ dies at 97.

LONDON(AP) — Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died. He was 97. Deighton’s literary agent, Tim Bates, said he died Sunday ...