Len Deighton, best-selling novelist with wry tackle espionage, dies at 97 | EUROtoday

Len Deighton, the prolific British spy novelist whose best-selling books of betrayal and deception skewered espionage providers within the East and the West, and sharply mocked English social strictures, reflecting his personal rise from a childhood removed from privilege, died March 15. He was 97.