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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.
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Classical in form, grave, cool and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Len Deighton
- First published
- 1966
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- The Companion Book Club, Putnam, Ulverscroft
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780745141886
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