- Fiction, Fiction in English, Thriller, Non-Classifiable
Len Deighton's classic first novel, whoseprotagonist is a nameless spy – later christened Harry Palmer and made famous worldwide in the iconic 1960s film starring Michael Caine.The Ipcress File was not only Len Deighton's first novel, it was his first bestseller and the book that broke the mould of thriller writing.For the working class narrator, an apparently straightforward mission to find a missing biochemist…
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Cool, grave, plot-driven and earnest.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Len Deighton
- First published
- 1962
- Pages
- 223
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books., Chivers Press, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780061008160
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