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Billion Dollar Brain
by Deighton, Len
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- near fine
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
5 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Undetermined. near fine. 1st Edition. 4p.l.,312pp. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth, white embossing to front board, spine title in gilt. Edges of boards slightly faded. Illustrated dust jacket, unclipped; small chips to crown and foot, some rubbing to edges. Illustrated endpapers. A tight, clean copy; dust jacket illustration is particularly striking. Near fine. near fine Espionage thriller, Len Deighton draws on the legacy of Ian Fleming and John le Carr for his gripping story of a man with a "Billion Dollar Brain". An historian, advertising agency artist and cookery book author, Deighton lent his hand to many projects. 1966
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
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 104905
- Title
- Billion Dollar Brain
- Author
- Deighton, Len
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Quantity Available
- 5
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Espionage|Spy Novel|Spy Thriller|Thriller
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About the Seller
Aquila Books
Biblio member since 2010
Calgary, Alberta
About Aquila Books
Aquila Books specializes in books dealing with Polar Exploration, Western Canadiana, Mountaineering, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Early Voyages as well as many other areas. We also deal in antique maps and prints, historic photos, autograph letters, postcards, antique scientific instruments and antique bookcases. Please contact us if you have any questions.
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