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'The poet of the spy story' Sunday Times A sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War - until now. Inside its rusting hull, among the corpses of top-rank Nazis, lie secrets people will kill to obtain. The sequel to Len Deighton's game-changing debut The IPCRESS File, Horse Under Water sees its nameless, laconic narrator sent from fogbound London to the Algarve, where he must dive through layers of deceit in a place rotten with betrayals.
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7 primary booksSecret File is a 7-book series with 7 primary works first released in 1962 with contributions by Len Deighton.
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Sequel to the Ipcress File featuring the same nameless secret agent (dubbed Harry Palmer in the films). More straightforward than the previous book, this is more of a potboiler about a sunken Nazi u-boat, heroin smuggling and neo-fascists. There's lots of to-ing and fro-ing between London and Portugal and the short chapters keep things moving along at a nice pace. A minor Deighton, but an enjoyable read.