# The IPCRESS File

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- Book: [The IPCRESS File](https://www.bookquiver.com/len-deighton/the-ipcress-file) ([The IPCRESS File.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/len-deighton/the-ipcress-file.md))
- Authors: [Len Deighton](https://www.bookquiver.com/len-deighton)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4150-542-7
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2021-04-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton's sensational debut The IPCRESS File rewrote the spy thriller and became the defining novel of 1960's London.