The IPCRESS File
First edition cover | |
| Author | Len Deighton |
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| Cover artist | Raymond Hawkey |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
Publication date | 1962 (first edition) |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| Followed by | Horse Under Water |
The IPCRESS File is Len Deighton's first spy novel, published in 1962. The story involves Cold War brainwashing and includes scenes in Lebanon and on an atoll for a United States atomic weapon test, as well as information about Joe One, the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb. The story was made into a film in 1965 produced by Harry Saltzman, directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Michael Caine; and a 2022 TV series, starring Joe Cole, Lucy Boynton and Tom Hollander.