Billion-Dollar Brain
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 cover of the first edition |
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| Author(s) | Len Deighton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel, Spy Novel |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
| Publication date | 1966 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 412 pp |
| ISBN | 0-09-985710-3 |
| Preceded by | Funeral in Berlin |
Billion-Dollar Brain (1966, ISBN 0-09-985710-3) is a Cold War spy novel by Len Deighton, and the fourth protagonised by an anonymous 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 the author's novels, the plot of Billion-Dollar Brain is intricate, with many dead ends.
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The unnamed protagonist travels to Helsinki to deliver a package after receiving instructions from a mysterious mechanically operated telephone message. On his arrival the protagonist discovers that the message was from 'The Brain', a one billion dollar super-computer owned by eccentric Texan billionaire General Midwinter.
Midwinter is using The Brain to organise his own intelligence agency and private army which will soon start an uprising in Soviet-occupied Latvia in an attempt to end Communism in the Eastern bloc and tip the balance of the Cold War in favour of the West. After discovering this, and also the fact that the package he delivered contained a deadly virus, the protagonist must stop the virus from falling into the hands of both the Soviets and the madman billionaire - and prevent a nuclear war between the superpowers in the process.
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