Billion-Dollar Brain

Billion-Dollar Brain
Len Deighton
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h198 x 129mm - 412pg
29 Apr 2021 UK
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9780241505168
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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, who is trying to bring down the USSR using a vast computer complex known as the Brain. After being recruited by his old friend 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 * 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 *
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 Carre.
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ISBN-13: 9780241505168
Published: 29 Apr 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 35mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 412

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