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Billion Dollar Brain
by Deighton, Len
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
USA: G P Putnam's Sons, 1966. 1st US Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First US edition (preceded by UK edition). Prelims plus 312pp. Golden endpapers. Deckled edge. Bound in decorated red cloth-covered boards (boards a little rubbed at edges, rounded at spine tips, spotted on upper text block edge, hint of toning to text block edges). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (bumped at edges, a little chipped on lower leading corner and around base of spine, spine faded). Not price clipped. The dust jacket protected in an archival-quality mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. Leonard Cyril Deighton is a British author whose works include cookery books, history and military history, but he is best known for his spy novels, including the series featuring the unnamed Harry Palmer. We have many books by Len Deighton in stock, including early, limited and first editions. Please inquire for discounts on multiple titles.
Synopsis
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 an anti-communist espionage network owned by a Texan billionaire, General Midwinter, run from a vast computer complex known as the Brain. After having been recruited by Harvey Newbegin, the narrator travels from the bone-freezing winter of Helsinki, Riga and Leningrad, to the stifling heat of Texas, and soon finds himself tangling with enemies on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005989
- Title
- Billion Dollar Brain
- Author
- Deighton, Len
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st US Edition 1st Impression
- Publisher
- G P Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- thrillers, modern fiction firsts, spy fiction,
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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