Billion-Dollar Brain

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Len Deighton. Billion-Dollar Brain

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Introduction

SECTION 1 London and Helsinki

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SECTION 2 London

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SECTION 3 Helsinki

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SECTION 4 Leningrad and Riga

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SECTION 5 New York

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SECTION 6 San Antonio

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SECTION 7 New York

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SECTION 8 London

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SECTION 9 Helsinki and Leningrad

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SECTION 10 London

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APPENDIX ONE. Soviet military districts

APPENDIX TWO. Soviet Intelligence

APPENDIX THREE. Privately owned intelligence units

Footnotes. Chapter 1

Chapter 3

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 12

Chapter 14

Chapter 17

Chapter 20

Chapter 26

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About the Author

By Len Deighton

About the Publisher

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The great challenge I faced when asked to produce the jackets for new editions of Len Deighton’s books was the existence of the brilliant designs conceived by Ray Hawkey for the original editions.

However, having arrived at a concept, part of the joy I derived in approaching this challenge was the quest to locate the various props which the author had so beautifully detailed in his texts. Deighton has likened a spy story to a game of chess, which led me to transpose the pieces on a chessboard with some of the relevant objects specified in each book. I carried this notion throughout the entire quartet of books.

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‘Journalists who have well-placed, indiscreet friends call themselves political commentators. Kaarna is one of the more responsible ones. He’s Finnish. Comfortable.’ (Dawlish’s word for a private income.) ‘He spends a great deal of time and money collecting his information. Two days ago he spoke to one of our embassy people in Helsinki. Asked him to confirm a couple of small technical points before an article is published next month. He’s thinking of sending it to Kansan Uutiset, which is the left-wing newspaper. If it was something harmful to us, that would be a good place to set the fuses. Of course we don’t know what Kaarna has up his sleeve, but he says he can show that there is a vast British Military Intelligence operation covering northern Europe and centred in Finland.’ Dawlish smiled as he said this and so did I. The thought of Ross at the War Office master-minding a global network was a little unreal.

‘And the clever answer is …?’

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