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I spy the wisecracking master of the thriller

Letters: Henry Sherman and Phil Coughlin celebrate the wit and skill of Len Deighton

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Thursday news quiz: weird particles, Welsh conquests and web issues

Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?

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Len Deighton, spy novelist and author of The Ipcress File, dies aged 97

British writer brought wit, realism and class consciousness to cold war espionage fiction, reshaping the genre in the 1960s

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Working-class hero: Len Deighton, best-selling spy writer, dies aged 97

Len Deighton, creator of Harry Palmer, one of the world's most famous spy characters, has died aged 97. The British writer sold millions of books and was translated into 20 languages over a career spanning half a century.

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Len Deighton obituary

Writer whose ‘anti-Bond’ hero in his 1962 novel The Ipcress File had a seismic impact on spy fiction

The Guardian - UK

The Ipcress File spy author dies aged 97 after prolific career

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The Ipcress File author Len Deighton dies at 97

Deighton’s most famous novel broke the mould of thriller writing and was turned into a movie starring Sir Michael Caine.

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The Ipcress File author Len Deighton dies aged 97

Len Deighton, whose debut novel The Ipcress File was adapted into a film starring Sir Michael Caine, has died aged 97.

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Len Deighton death: Bestselling spy thriller author, who also taught men how to cook, dies aged 97

Best known for his debut novel ‘The Ipcress File’, which was adapted into a hit film starring Michael Caine, Deighton also helped to introduce a generation of men to the joys of cooking at home

The Independent UK

Len Deighton dies aged 97: Famous spy author who wrote The Ipcress File passes away

The writer’s career spanned almost half a century, with his first novel The Ipcress File being turned into a BAFTA-award winning film

Evening Standard

An expulsion, a smirking leader and now a defection: it’s episode one, series one of the Farage/Jenrick show

Farage was all smiles as the Tory rightwinger he once called a ‘fraud’ defected to Reform. Will it be big enough for the both of them? Keep watching, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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The Ipcress File Abandons Its Satirical Roots for Spy Thriller Hijinks

The drama is engaging, but fans of the book should prepare for a wildly different story.

Reason

The week in TV: The Ipcress File; The Witchfinder; Servant of the People; Writing With Fire

Joe Cole grows into the Michael Caine role in a timely remake of Len Deighton’s thriller; a 17th-century witch hunt is no laughing matter; and Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s comedy past makes for important, if uneasy viewing

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The Ipcress File review – a working-class hero takes on the might of Russia

ITV’s reboot of Len Deighton’s cold war spy thriller has Joe Cole as Harry Palmer sorting out the mess left by public school boys. Sound familiar?

Evening Standard

The Ipcress File review: Joe Cole makes an enjoyably cynical hero in this eerily timed spy saga

This new spin on Len Deighton’s Cold War classic is sharply scripted and looks great

The Guardian - UK

‘The threat of nuclear annihilation hasn’t gone away’ – the timely return of The Ipcress File

Screenwriter John Hodge talks about rebooting the cold war spy drama he was told was irrelevant, reveals how half a line of his Bond script made it into No Time to Die – and explains why there’ll be no more Trainspotting sequels

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