DEIGHTON, Len

[312] pp.

Jonathan Cape

1966

First Printing

7 3/4″ x 5 1/4″

Jacket design by Raymond Hawkey

Fine/ Fine

Deighton’s fourth Harry Palmer novel, source for the film of the same name starring Michael Caine and Karl Malden.

Billion-Dollar Brain is a 1966 Cold War spy novel by Len Deighton. It was the fourth to feature an unnamed secret agent working for the British WOOC(P) intelligence agency. It follows The IPCRESS File (1962), Horse Under Water (1963), and Funeral in Berlin (1964). As in most of Deighton’s novels, the plot of Billion Dollar Brain (1967) is intricate, with many dead ends.