The Ipcress File

A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secretBritish intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton’s iconic unnamedprotagonist—later christened Harry Palmer—to find out why. His search begins ina grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he endsup amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turnsinto something far more sinister.

With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton’ssensational debut and first bestseller The IPCRESS File broke the moldof thriller writing and became the defining novel of 1960s London.