The Ipcress File is where it all began—the first book by legendary thriller writer Len Deighton. A secret British intelligence agency recruits the book's protagonist (christened Harry Palmer in later books) to find out why a scientist has been kidnapped and where that scientist was taken. From a grimy club in Soho to a Soviet-populated area of Beirut, our working-class hero goes to great lengths to solve the case in this novel that heralded a new genre of thrillers.