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Billion-dollar brain

Len Deighton

1966245 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1966
first published
  • 1966Jonathan Cape · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780224610032
  • 2009HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780007342990
  • 2015HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780008124816
  • 2021Penguin Books, Limited · ENGISBN 9780241505168
  • 1976HarperCollins Publishers · 254 pagesISBN 9780586044285
  • 1984Berkley · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780425073728
  • 1982BerkleyISBN 9780425053553
  • 1983Berkley · 245 pagesISBN 9780425064313

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. After having been recruited by 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.

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