Secret Files

3 primary works

Horse Under Water

by Len Deighton

Published December 1962

This is a guide to improving the memory's capacity and efficiency for young and old by using techniques developed by David Berglas. He claims that by using these techniques, details such as names, faces, numbers and complex information can be recalled whenever needed.

Funeral in Berlin

by Len Deighton

Published 1 January 1964

A ferociously cool Cold War thriller from the author of The Ipcress File.

Len Deighton’s third novel has become a classic, as compelling and suspenseful now as when it first exploded on to the bestseller lists.

In Berlin, where neither side of the wall is safe, Colonel Stok of...

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A ferociously cool Cold War thriller from the author of The Ipcress File.

Len Deighton’s third novel has become a classic, as compelling and suspenseful now as when it first exploded on to the bestseller lists.

In Berlin, where neither side of the wall is safe, Colonel Stok of Red Army Security is prepared to sell an important Russian scientist to the West – for a price. British intelligence are willing to pay, providing their own top secret agent is in Berlin to act as go-between. But it soon becomes apparent that behind the facade of an elaborate mock funeral lies a game of deadly manoeuvres and ruthless tactics. A game in which the blood-stained legacy of Nazi Germany is enmeshed in the intricate moves of cold war espionage…

Billion-Dollar Brain

by Len Deighton

Published 1 January 1966

'Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times

'Worth of Raymond Chandler ... intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining' Sunday Telegraph

Texan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The fourth and final novel featuring the cynical, insolent narrator of...

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'Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times

'Worth of Raymond Chandler ... intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining' Sunday Telegraph

Texan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The fourth and final novel featuring the cynical, insolent narrator of The IPCRESS File sees him sent from his shabby Soho office to bone-freezing Helsinki in order to penetrate Midwinter's vast anti-Communist network - and stop a deadly virus from wiping out the planet.