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Billion-Dollar Brain
A routine assignment pulls a British agent into the organisation of General Midwinter, a wealthy American anti-communist who has built a private intelligence and propaganda machine. Midwinter believes technology, money and ideological certainty can destabilise the Soviet Union, and his plans draw the agent toward Finland and the Soviet frontier.
Behind the computers and secret networks lies a dangerous misunderstanding of power. Deighton contrasts the precision claimed by automated intelligence systems with the unpredictability of individuals, weather and politics, turning a private crusade against communism into a study of obsession and Cold War escalation.
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