The Ipcress File
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Any Len Deighton lovers out there? I must admit I have a penchant for these cold-war spy stories. Just started watching the new TV series The Ipcress File (2022, ITV). It is starting out really good. Any opinions? SS-GB was not bad, but not very strong either, IMHO.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Any Len Deighton lovers out there? I must admit I have a penchant for these cold-war spy stories. Just started watching the new TV series The Ipcress File (2022, ITV). It is starting out really good. Any opinions? SS-GB was not bad, but not very strong either, IMHO.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Besides Deighton, I'd recommend Nelson DeMille's The Charm School[^]. He has a sense of humour, much like Mick Herron's Slough House series. Also Desmond Bagley's Running Blind[^], which I read after watching the TV adaptation. If you type "cold war spy thrillers" into Amazon's search bar, you'll have hours of sifting ahead of you.
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Besides Deighton, I'd recommend Nelson DeMille's The Charm School[^]. He has a sense of humour, much like Mick Herron's Slough House series. Also Desmond Bagley's Running Blind[^], which I read after watching the TV adaptation. If you type "cold war spy thrillers" into Amazon's search bar, you'll have hours of sifting ahead of you.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. -
Any Len Deighton lovers out there? I must admit I have a penchant for these cold-war spy stories. Just started watching the new TV series The Ipcress File (2022, ITV). It is starting out really good. Any opinions? SS-GB was not bad, but not very strong either, IMHO.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Yes, I was very much into these books years ago. But I got a bit bored with "Game, Set & Match", "Hook, Line & Sinker" (was there a third one?), as they didn't have the real twists and turns of the first four or five he wrote. The new TV series is interesting but has only very passing reference to the book.
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Yes, I was very much into these books years ago. But I got a bit bored with "Game, Set & Match", "Hook, Line & Sinker" (was there a third one?), as they didn't have the real twists and turns of the first four or five he wrote. The new TV series is interesting but has only very passing reference to the book.
