Michael Caine was fired on his birthday by Lowndes Productions' Harry Saltzman, who previously plucked him from relative obscurity for 'The Ipcress File.' ...

Other notable names include John le Carré (The Constant Gardener), Len Deighton (The Ipcress File), Joseph Kanon (The Good German), Eric Ambler (Topkapi), Ian Fleming (From Russia with Love ...

His novels were neither as haunted and gloomy as John le Carré’s, as two-dimensional as Ian Fleming’s, nor as parochial as Len Deighton’s, but, like them, he was a novelist of the cold war.

A Sunderland-based cycling group is set to take on a special fundraising challenge in memory of a dear friend.

An alternative history in which Germany won the Second World War and Britain fell under Nazi rule proved to be a rich creative seam for novelists Len Deighton (SS-GB) and Robert Harris (Fatherland).

If you're a James Bond fan who has made their way through the entire franchise and want something new to watch, here are 6 good spy movie options.

One user replied: “Back in 1995 BBC Radio 4 did a real-time docu-drama of Len Deighton's novel Bomber. It interspersed interviews with former Lancaster bomber crew with a full cast dramatisation ...

In the 1960s, John Le Carre and Len Deighton entered the frame, introducing "cerebral spying" as a game of intellectual chess and reinventing the spy persona from a smooth-talking member of the ...

A pioneer at a time when competitive quizzing was an elite, male-dominated space, Saranya Jayakumar has sought, answered, and debated questions for close to six decades.

No influence is here stronger than that of Len Deighton. Early on, echoing early scenes in the 1965 adaptation of that author’s The Ipcress File, George is seen being notably handy in the kitchen.

For all the coolly staged set-pieces and stylish European locales, it’s the charged relationship between stars Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender that makes spy thriller Black Bag so alluring ...

Cerebral rather than action-packed, it’s like a classic le Carré (or, with its Harry Palmer allusions, Len Deighton) thriller, brought bang up to date with stylish direction, outrageously ...