‘The poet of the spy novel’, he transformed a flashy, tuxedo-clad genre into something more gritty and realistic Len Deighton, who has died aged 97, was acclaimed “the poet of the spy novel”, having almost single-handedly rescued spy fiction from the flashy, tuxedo-clad, womanising, snobbish and – some said – sadistic world of James Bond and refashioned it into... [11970 chars]
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