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Billion-dollar brainLen Deighton
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Billion-dollar brain

312 pagesFirst published 196618 editions
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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…

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionPenguin Books, Limited2021—9780241505175
EditionPenguin Books, Limited2021—9780241505168
EditionHarperCollins Publishers20193529780008373733
EditionHarperCollins Publishers Limited20153529780008124816
EditionSterling Publishing Co., Inc.2011—9781402790591
EbookHarperCollins2009—9780007342990
AudiobookChivers Audio Books1993—9780745141886
EditionArrow19913379780099857105
HardcoverUlverscroft Large Print19895129780708909010
EditionTriad Grafton Books1987—9780586073957
EditionBerkley19842569780425073728
EditionBerkley19832459780425064313
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FictionThrillerEnglish Science fictionFiction in EnglishFiction, thrillers, espionageFiction, generalFiction, espionageFiction, thrillers