FREE THE IPCRESS FILE PDF Len Deighton | 272 pages | 26 Mar 2015 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9780008124786 | English | London, United Kingdom The Ipcress File (Secret File, #1) by Len Deighton Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open The Ipcress File See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. For the working class narrator, an apparently straightforward mission to find a missing biochemist becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy. The film of The Ipcress File gave Michael Caine one of his first and still most celebrated starring roles, while the novel itself has become a classic. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published October 1st by Harper first published More Details Original Title. Secret File 1. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask The Ipcress File readers questions about The Ipcress File Ipcress Fileplease sign up. This is the first book I've had to write comments in with a pen because it is so bad. Where did that come from? No mention of this explosion after. Disjointed mess of a plot. So dull as well. The Ipcress File writes like an imbecile. Jester Gilchrist Snatches of German and small bite-sized pieces of Hungarian ran like strands of a web across the clipped Harvard speech and The Ipcress File drawn out vowels of me …more Snatches of German and small bite-sized pieces of Hungarian ran like strands of a web across the clipped Harvard speech and the drawn out vowels of men The Ipcress File had been at Oak Ridge for so long that it had become their permanent home. See 1 question about The Ipcress File…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. But a vase of roses in the hands of a man of evil intent is a murder weapon. The protagonist of this novel is nameless. When the The Ipcress File and directors met with Michael The Ipcress File about making the movie version they decided that they had to refer to the The Ipcress File by some sort of name so Caine christened him Harry Palmer. Neither of them are of course his real name. We know that he used The Ipcress File work in military intelligence, but has recently been put in charge of a small agency called WOOC P which is so secret that no one seems to even The Ipcress File what the acronym stands for. Her slim white arms shone against the dull material, and her hands were long and slender, the nails cut short and varnished in a natural colour. I watched her even, very white teeth bite into the croissant. He reseals the money and fake passports into another envelope and mails it to himself again. He is prepared for The Ipcress File to go disastrously wrong every day. Forgetting to make use of the information that negates his hastily formed by deliciously convenient theories. He is invited to attend an atomic bomb weapons test event by the US government on an atoll in the The Ipcress File. When he escapes instead of finding himself in some desert hellhole, he discovers that he is within walking distance of London. It seems there has been a double cross or a triple cross or maybe just your standard diabolical attempt to infiltrate and take over the The Ipcress File government. Someone is kidnapping top level scientists and brainwashing them. But to what end? Len Deighton pulled that rug off his head and pulled it over all our eyes. It is all rather confusing. In fact the whole plot of the novel is completely unfathomable. He refused and took the book to a rival publisher who accepted the novel as written. The editor over there must have been cockeyed, cross-eyed, inebriated, or merely brilliant because the book though proving so puzzling to readers somehow became a huge success. Kingsley Amis famously weighed in with it is "actually quite good if you stop worrying about what's going on". And that is the key, when I finally let go and quit trying to figure out exactly what was going on I started to really enjoy The Ipcress File writing. Deighton expects a lot of his readers which is probably why his novels have fallen out of favor these days. The asides though witty are reasonably obscure. It is all lost in translation from the mind of Deighton into English. At the beginning of many of the chapters Deighton would put a horoscope that loosely reflected the contents of the chapter. A good week for your hobbies and romance, but you can expect some difficulties with evening arrangements. Forthright talking may well clear the air. Regardless of being befuddled for most of the book I ended up absolutely enjoying the ride. Sometimes we just have to let go of the rigid confines of a definable plot. I have the film on order which I hear is excellent and not confusing at all. I find it utterly fascinating that the British public made this book a bestseller and Deighton a literary star. Maybe Deighton will The Ipcress File to make sense or I will just have to accept that sometimes the insensible can still be entertaining. View all 53 comments. Dec The Ipcress File, Susan rated it liked it. He has been transferred from military intelligence to WOOC P a small, civilian intelligence agency, reporting to the British Cabinet directly and headed by Dalby. Our narrator is very aware of his background and class plays a huge part in this novel. This is gritty, un-romantic stuff, with seedy clubs and coffee houses as the settings of many scenes, rather than exotic locations although he does see action outside the UK. Still, there is certainly a lack of support The Ipcress File he is aware that, should anything go wrong, rather than coming up with some way to whisk him out of trouble, Dalby will deny all knowledge of what he is talking about… Although this novel was an instant success when it was first published, I found it something of a difficult read. It was slow and, I felt, a little dry. The Ipcress File, it is an important read, which presented a much more realistic view of the Secret Service than the recently published Bond novels and led to other, similar spy books in the genre. View 2 comments. Shelves: fiction-espionage-intriguereviewed. The The Ipcress File File is one of those novels that, burnished by the passage of time and forgetfulness, is now considered to be a classic in its genre. It was supposedly quite the trendsetter back intaking on the themes of organizational betrayal using the voice of a working-class spy The Ipcress File has a chip on his shoulder regarding his betters. Deighton was never The Ipcress File spy, but rather a s illustrator and ad man. The dialog is very of-the-moment, and Our Hero has a smart mouth on him. This is the good part. The not-so-good? The plot wanders off into side streets and gets distracted by shiny things, usually with no real urgency behind it. All these issues together left me wondering one thing upon re-reading this novel after [mumble] years: Is that it? This may be a case of the film being better than the book The Ipcress File inspired it. Interesting, no doubt, but not at all what you were hoping for. View all 10 comments. Shelves: mysterynovelscrimefictionultimate-reading- listsuspensecontemporary. This has been praised as a literary thriller that helped shape the espionage thriller genre, and I've seen Deighton compared to Dickens, contrasted favorably to Ian Fleming. Frankly, this struck me as rather juvenile. Unlike Fleming, Deighton doesn't have a background in intelligence, and the book never struck me as plausible. This is Len Deighton's first novel--before this he had been working as an illustrator according This has been praised as a literary thriller that helped shape the espionage thriller genre, and The Ipcress File seen Deighton compared to Dickens, contrasted favorably to Ian Fleming. This is Len Deighton's first novel--before this he had been working as an illustrator according to his introduction--and it shows. An illustrator as opposed to an artist has to pretty much cover the page. A few words about…™ The Ipcress File - in Blu-ray • Home Theater Forum | Home Theater Forum Techniscope was an interesting, proprietary system, created by Technicolor, which served multiple purposes. Exposing 2 perforations, as opposed to the standard 4, and exposing printing matrices direct from the source, worked beautifully, and became a less expensive standard for hundreds of productions over several decades. In14 production, inclusive of Dr. Shadow detail is limited in some shots, but that may be as intended. Perhaps Mr. Kimmel might comment. It plays a bit akin to Bond without hype and super-human powers. Caine, in his first starring role, is excellent. One scene that I appreciated, occurs early on when Mr. Caine, as Harry Palmer, a lower-end government agent, is being shown through his new facility. Harry is handed a well used Smith wheel-gun. The list goes on, and that should give you an indication of heritage. Kino adds a few nice extras inclusive of an interview with Mr.