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Len Deighton’s fourth novel featuring his perennially unnamed employee of WOOC(P) continues the tense atmosphere of his earlier work, The IPCRESS File. The story follows the narrator as he is recruited by a Texan billionaire, General Midwinter, to join an anti‑communist espionage network headquartered at a vast computer complex called the Brain. From the icy streets of Helsinki, Riga and Leningrad, the agent travels to the sweltering heat of Texas and becomes embroiled in a deadly cat‑and‑mouse game with enemies on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
First publish date: 1966
Genre: Thriller/Political Thriller
Authors: Len Deighton
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