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Loading... The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1) (original 1962; edition 2009)by Len Deighton
Work InformationThe Ipcress File by Len Deighton (1962)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I confess I lost track of the characters and the plot. Strangely, I didn't care as the main character carried me along with his espionage activities and his relationships with other spooks. Written in 1962, the parts focused on nuclear technology were fascinating, and the atmosphere was utterly believable. I have read Deighton's Game, Set, and Match and this was every bit as dense and interesting. ( ) I confess I lost track of the characters and the plot. Strangely, I didn't care as the main character carried me along with his espionage activities and his relationships with other spooks. Written in 1962, the parts focused on nuclear technology were fascinating, and the atmosphere was utterly believable. I have read Deighton's Game, Set, and Match and this was every bit as dense and interesting.
10 of the Greatest Cold War Spy Novels “The nameless secret agent here may lack the name ‘Harry Palmer,’ but he is very the much the deceptively ordinary bureaucrat-with-a-gun of the classic 1965 Michael Caine film. A womanizer and a gourmet cook, he has no great love for his superiors and secretly prepares an exit strategy, should things in the spy world go awry. In his assignment to locate missing scientists, he uncovers a secret brainwashing scheme that marks him for the next victim, due to betrayal from the ranks of the superiors he already distrusts. By any name, Deighton’s working-class spy is the ideal anti-Bond.” Belongs to SeriesHarry Palmer (1) Belongs to Publisher SeriesPanther Books (1629) Den svarte serie (6) Is contained inHas the adaptationInspired
A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton's iconic unnamed protagonist-later christened Harry Palmer-to find out why. His search begins in a grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he ends up amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton's sensational debut and first bestseller The IPCRESS File broke the mold of thriller writing and became the defining novel of 1960s London. No library descriptions found. |
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