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Texan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The fourth and final novel featuring the cynical, insolent narrator of The IPCRESS File sees him sent from his shabby Soho office to bone-freezing Helsinki in order to penetrate Midwinter's vast anti-Communist network - and stop a deadly virus from wiping out the planet.

'Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times

'Worth of Raymond Chandler ... intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining' Sunday Telegraph

© Len Deighton 1966 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critics Review

Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle.
Sunday Times
Worthy of Raymond Chandler... intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining.
Sunday Telegraph
Deighton is a fearless observer of the deceptive human world.
New Statesman
They don't, as they say, write them like this anymore. You will be entertained, informed, thrilled and dazzled. Long may he, and his creations, live on.
The Guardian
A wonderful mixture of the exciting and the amusingly humdrum ... James Bond may be thinner, but so is his dialogue.
Daily Telegraph
Len Deighton is the Flaubert of the contemporary thriller writers.
Times Literary Supplement
Author Len Deighton
Narrator James Lailey
Duration 10 hours and 13 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9780241535738
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Classic fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Science fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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