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Billion-Dollar Brain

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241505168

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 224g

  • RRP: £9.99

Billion-Dollar Brain

'Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times

'Worth of Raymond Chandler ... intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining' Sunday Telegraph

Texan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The fourth and final novel featuring the cynical, insolent narrator of The IPCRESS File sees him sent from his shabby Soho office to bone-freezing Helsinki in order to penetrate Midwinter's vast anti-Communist network - and stop a deadly virus from wiping out the planet.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241505168

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 224g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle.

    Sunday Times

  • Worthy of Raymond Chandler... intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining.

    Sunday Telegraph

  • They don't, as they say, write them like this anymore. You will be entertained, informed, thrilled and dazzled. Long may he, and his creations, live on.

    Jeremy Duns, The Guardian

  • A wonderful mixture of the exciting and the amusingly humdrum ... James Bond may be thinner, but so is his dialogue.

    Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph

  • Len Deighton is the Flaubert of the contemporary thriller writers.

    Michael Howard, Times Literary Supplement

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About the Author

Len Deighton

Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London. He did his national service in the RAF, went to the Royal College of Art and designed many book jackets, including the original UK edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The enormous success of his first spy novel, The IPCRESS File (1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following decades. These varied from historical fiction (Bomber, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction (SS-GB) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War (Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly). His spy novels chart the twists and turns of Britain and the Cold War in ways which now give them a unique flavour. They preserve a world in which Europe contains many dictatorships, in which the personal can be ruined by the ideological and where the horrors of the Second World War are buried under only a very thin layer of soil. Deighton's fascination with technology, his sense of humour and his brilliant evocation of time and place make him one of the key British espionage writers, alongside John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré.

Len Deighton

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