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Len Deighton obituary: writer who redefined spy thrillers dies aged 97

The creator of Harry Palmer brought anti-establishment edge to the Sixties while mastering everything from military history to ‘gastrosexual’ cookery As an 11-year old boy in 1940, Len Deighton witnessed something that was to colour his imagination profoundly. Anna Wolkoff, his neighbour in Gloucester Place Mews, was arrested for spying. At her subsequent trial it emerged that this British subject... [9419 chars]

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