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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Len Deighton. Billion-Dollar Brain
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Copyright
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.
