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THE BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN (Dell, 0583)
by Len Deighton
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None as Issued
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About This Item
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's/Dell, 1967. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW showing faint margin discoloration. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover/VG; strong w/edge rubs, and upper text wrinkling to last pages from humidity. Fiction. International espionage. 1964 work of Len Deighton (1929 - ) of an un-named British secret service agent. The Billion Dollar Brain is the 4th of four novels in the series, beginning w/The IPCRESS File, which were adapted to film starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer. This novel entangles England, Finland and Latvia --- and, the "Brain", a super-computer owned by a Texan billionaire.
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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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017618
- Title
- THE BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN (Dell, 0583)
- Author
- Len Deighton
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's/Dell
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1967
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction/Novel/Spy/Ipcress File/Michael Caine/Cold War
- Bookseller catalogs
- International Relations;
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