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Cargando... The Ipcress File (1962)por Len Deighton
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The Ipcress File, my tenth read from author Len Deighton. Well-written with well-developed, intriguing characters & plot. (RIP Marley January 20, 2014 - July 24, 2018). ( ) The 1st in the 7 Harry Palmer books. A great book that recreated the way spy genre was written. Written in the first person, you never find out the hero's (anti-hero?) name. The key spy element is based on brainwashing and then abducting western scientists to the east - IPCRESS stands for Induction of Psychoneuroses by Conditioned Reflex under stress. Whilst a spy move; it's not in any way and action based plot (a la James bond), this is a mystery novel with the suspense of Cold War spying and the hangovers of WWII overlaid upon the storyline. Antihjälten X, stjärnagent i brittiska underrättelsetjänsten, får uppdraget att spränga en internationell spionliga som har som specialitet att kidnappa och hjärntvätta vetenskapsmän för att komma över topphemligheter åt makter på andra sidan järnridån. Som en bricka i det storpolitiska spelet fjärrdirigeras han av sina uppdragsgivare omväxlande till främre Orienten, en Stillahavs atoll och en till synes fridsam Londonförort. För att inte få veta för mycket leds han ideligen in på villospår, vilket inte gör det lättare för honom att reda ut den trassliga härvan.
10 of the Greatest Cold War Spy Novels “The nameless secret agent here may lack the name ‘Harry Palmer,’ but he is very the much the deceptively ordinary bureaucrat-with-a-gun of the classic 1965 Michael Caine film. A womanizer and a gourmet cook, he has no great love for his superiors and secretly prepares an exit strategy, should things in the spy world go awry. In his assignment to locate missing scientists, he uncovers a secret brainwashing scheme that marks him for the next victim, due to betrayal from the ranks of the superiors he already distrusts. By any name, Deighton’s working-class spy is the ideal anti-Bond.” Pertenece a las seriesHarry Palmer (1) Pertenece a las series editorialesPanther Books (1629) Den svarte serie (6) Contenido enTiene la adaptaciónInspirado
A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton's iconic unnamed protagonist-later christened Harry Palmer-to find out why. His search begins in a grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he ends up amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton's sensational debut and first bestseller The IPCRESS File broke the mold of thriller writing and became the defining novel of 1960s London. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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