Len Deighton has died (Spy fiction - Counter-intelligence novelist)

 Washington POST noted that obituary

Len Deighton

b. Feb. 18, 1929

d. this week

age 97

birthplace: Marylebone, LONDON, U.K.

His famous novel,

The Ipcress File

was re-booted as a 2022 limited series

6-episode (cable) after originally getting

a movie treatment in 1965