'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, Guardian 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.
Penguin Classics The ipcress file/len deighton
