Thriller Classics Crime 1962

The Ipcress File by Len Deighton

A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton’s iconic unnamed protagonist—later christened Harry Palmer—to find out why.

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What it is

Spies, moles and state secrets · it messes with your head

What happens in it

Espionage

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It's for you if…

  • you like reading with your heart in your mouth
  • you like dry, sideways humour
  • you like fitting the pieces of a mystery together

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