Harry Palmer

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.

"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.