It was also the basis for a successful movie starring michael caine as harry palmer. The ipcress file is a 1965 british espionage film directed by sidney j. Michael caine made his first appearance as novelist len deighton s bespectacled britishspy harry palmer in the ipcress file. Deighton is also an expert on the history of the british military, having written several nonfiction books on it. This could very well be the best book i have ever had the pleasure of reading. Published at around the time of the cuban missile crisis, the ipcress file details the mutual paranoia and distrust that characterised relations between the west and russia. Len deightons classic first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy later christened harry palmer and made famous worldwide in the iconic 1960s film starring michael caine. With studied insolence, he takes on the case of locating missing doctor radcliffe aubrey richards, who has in his possession a valuable file. We use cookies for statistical and other functions to give you a superfast browsing experience. The ipcress file was a modest success in 1965 and has endured among aficionados as perhaps the best non007 spy film of the 60s.
Len deighton s first novel features the unnamed spy, rechristened harry palmer in the film version. A huge commercial and critical success, it is often mentioned as one of the best spy novels of all time. While in new york city working as a magazine illustrator he began writing his first novel, the ipcress file, which. Pdf the billion dollar spy download full pdf book download. The action cook book itself is a seminal sixties work filled with. The dead hand of a longdefeated nazi third reich reaches out to portugal, london and marrakech in deightons second novel, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of the ipcress file, but finds dawlish now head of the secret british intelligence unit, woocp. This is a blog about the books, film and world of british thriller and spy novel author len deighton, writer of the ipcress file, funeral in berlin, ssgb, bomber, berlin game and many other books. The film, based on the 1962 novel by len deighton, introduced cinema. Search through and download 37 ebooks by len deighton to our digital bookstore with 3 million ebooks from international publishers in 30 languages. Fine in a very good dust jacket that shows light wear. Like joseph conrads heart of darkness 1899, len deightons first novel, the ipcress file, starts in london, moves out of england through a network that follows the contours of global power, and returns finally to the capital. Unwittingly, and inadvertently, len deighton found himself on the cutting edge of the swinging. It provides a useful overview of the factors which. Len deighton exposes not only the inanity of western capitalistic materialism, linked primarily with americas flourishing postwar economy, but also the vacuous rhetoric of communist socialism.
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