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 "The Ipcress File".
British writer Len Deighton, who created the sardonic working-class spy played by Michael Caine in the 1965 Cold War film "The Ipcress File", has died, his literary agent said Tuesday.
Bond’ hero in his 1962 novel The Ipcress File had a seismic impact on spy fiction ...