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The classic spy thriller of lethal computer-age intrigue and a maniac's private cold war, featuring the unnamed narrator from The IPCRESS File, as he travels from the bone-freezing winter of Helsinki, Riga and Leningrad, to the stifling heat of Texas, and soon finds... Read Full Overview

The classic thriller of a lethal computer age and a maniac's private cold war… General Midwinter loves his country, and hates communism. In a bid to destabilize the Soviet power bloc he is running his own intelligence agency, whose "brain" is the world's biggest supercomputer... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

"Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle" --Sunday Times "Worth of Raymond Chandler . . . intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining" --Sunday Telegraph Texan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR--even if it puts... Read Full Overview

"Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle" --Sunday Times "Worth of Raymond Chandler . . . intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining" --Sunday Telegraph Texan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR--even if it puts... Read Full Overview