# 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
- Medium: audio
- Length: 8 h 47 min
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- ISBN: 978-02-4152-517-3
- Published: 2021-04-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 8 h 47 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. Now a new six part ITV drama starring Joe Cole, as iconic spy Harry Palmer, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander. 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. 'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, Guardian 'Changed the shape of the espionage thriller ... there is an infectious energy about this book which makes it a joy to read' Daily Telegraph © Len Deighton 1962 (P) Penguin Audio 2021