Book description
The classic spy thriller of lethal computer-age intrigue and a maniac's
private cold war, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of
The IPCRESS File.
The fourth of Deighton's novels to be narrated by the unnamed employee
of WOOC(P) is the thrilling story of an anti-communist espionage network
owned by a Texan billionaire, General Midwinter, run from a vast
computer complex known as the Brain.
After having been recruited by Harvey Newbegin, the narrator travels
from the bone-freezing winter of Helsinki, Riga and Leningrad, to the
stifling heat of Texas, and soon finds himself tangling with enemies on
both sides of the Iron Curtain. 'Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle'
Sunday Times
'Worthy of Raymond Chandler… intelligent… inventive… constantly
entertaining' Sunday Telegraph
'Such credibility, such accurate line-by-line beaming of a sheer sense
of the actual… a glittering, wintry entertainment' The Guardian
'Deighton is so far in the front of other writers in the field that
they are not even in sight' Sunday Times
'Nobody now seriously doubts that Deighton is the most credible of all
the spysmiths' The Scotsman Born in London, Len Deighton served in the
RAF before graduating from the Royal College of Art (which recently
elected him a Senior Fellow). While in New York City working as a
magazine illustrator he began writing his first novel, The Ipcress File,
which was published in 1962. He is now the author of more than thirty
books of fiction and non-fiction. At present living in Europe, he has,
over the years, lived with his family in ten different countries from
Austria to Portugal.
