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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.… (mehr)
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. ( )
The Ipcress File, my tenth read from author Len Deighton. Well-written with well-developed, intriguing characters & plot. (RIP Marley January 20, 2014 - July 24, 2018). ( )
A classic 1960s spy thriller, complete with cool language of its day. Takes you back to the days of nuclear bomb tests and the CND. Makes you quite nostalgic for the days of mutually assured destruction. ( )
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.”
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And now I will unclasp a secret book, and to your quick-conceiving discontents I'll read you matter deep and dangerous. Henry IV
Though it must be said that every species of birds has a manner peculiar to itself, yet there is somewhat in most genera at least that at first sight discriminates them, and enables a judicious observer to pronounce upon them with some certainty. Gilbert White - The Natural History of Selborne
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To the late J.B.F. upon whom the character of Cavendish was based
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They came through on the hot line at about half past two in the afternoon. The Minister didn't quite understand a couple of points in the summary. Perhaps I could see the Minister.
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Now my name isn't Harry, but in this business it's hard to remember whether it ever had been.
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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.
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