pickThis is an old book, Len Deighton‘s first book, dealing with incidents during the Cold War. Rather like historical fiction now, but well-written with a number of different turns or twists the book took. Quite cleverly written, and build towards an exciting climax. This was produced as a film with Michael Caine in the lead role.
#SummersEndReadathon 2610 Pages Read, 6 Books Finished.
Starting day 2 of the readathons reading the second half of The Ipcress File.
Including reading after midnight I‘m currently on 9 hrs 49 mins for #24B4Monday and 551 pages for #SummersEndReadathon
Time to go back into the past and read a thriller from them 1960s, although read in 2019 it is more like historical fiction. This was the first book written by Len Deighton.
That emoji #🤓 just made me think of Michael Caine from the movie tie in of The Ipcress File So here it is. 😂 Len Deighton always provides a good spy book, some feel like historical fiction now though!
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pickI really enjoyed this book & I‘ll definitely read more from this author. The nameless narrator has a great voice & I liked following the plot through his POV.
I wasn‘t so thrilled with the two fairly flat female characters who fall into the nymphet/battle-axe dichotomy, but they‘re smart & the narrator respects them so that‘s excellent for a spy novel written in 1962. Also appreciate that not every single character is white.
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#RockInMay #day3 #BackInTheUSSR I love spy novels, especially Cold War types of books like these eight. I'm a child of the 80s & vividly remember the news every night talking about how much of a threat they were, talking about how real an atom bomb threat is because we had two "sites of interest" near where I lived. Horrible nightmares I had as a child because of it.
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