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  • The IPCRESS File

  • Penguin Modern Classics
  • By: Len Deighton
  • Narrated by: James Lailey
  • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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By: Len Deighton
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Now a new six-part ITV drama starring Joe Cole, as iconic spy Harry Palmer, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander. 

A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton's sensational debut The IPCRESS File rewrote the spy thriller and became the defining novel of 1960s London.
©1962 Len Deighton (P)2021 Penguin Audio
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Critic Reviews

"A stone-cold Cold War classic." (Toby Litt, Guardian)

"Changed the shape of the espionage thriller...there is an infectious energy about this book which makes it a joy to read." (Daily Telegraph)

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I've just wasted 2 hours of my life

I've just wasted 2 hours of my life waiting for this book to go someone... I mean sure it was going to? Nope, utter drivel.

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