IPCRESS File

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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

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