Description

The basic spy thriller of life-threatening computer-era interest and a maniac’s personal cold-war, offering exactly the same unknown narrator and milieu of The IPCRESS File.The next of Deighton’s books to be read by the unnamed worker of WOOC(P) may be the fascinating tale of an anti-communist espionage community possessed by a Texan billionaire, Common Midwinter, run from a huge computer complex referred to as the Brain.After having been employed by Harvey Newbegin, the narrator moves from the bone-snowy winter of Helsinki, Riga and Leningrad, for the sweltering heat of Texas, and quickly finds himself tangling with opponents on both sides of the Metal Layer.