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Billion Dollar Brain
de Deighton, Len
- Usado
- near fine
- First
- Estado
- near fine
- Librería
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Undetermined. near fine. 1st Edition. 4p.l.,312pp. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth, white embossing to front board, spine title in gilt. Edges of boards slightly faded. Illustrated dust jacket, unclipped; small chips to crown and foot, some rubbing to edges. Illustrated endpapers. A tight, clean copy; dust jacket illustration is particularly striking. Near fine. near fine Espionage thriller, Len Deighton draws on the legacy of Ian Fleming and John le Carr for his gripping story of a man with a "Billion Dollar Brain". An historian, advertising agency artist and cookery book author, Deighton lent his hand to many projects. 1966
Sinopsis
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 with enemies on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 104905
- Título
- Billion Dollar Brain
- Autor
- Deighton, Len
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Undetermined
- Estado del libro
- Usado - near fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 5
- Editorial
- Jonathan Cape
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1966
- Palabras clave
- Espionage|Spy Novel|Spy Thriller|Thriller
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Aquila Books
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Sobre Aquila Books
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
