Billion-Dollar Brain
cover of the first edition
Author	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	NA
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 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). Leonard Cyril Deighton (born February 18, 1929, Marylebone, London) is a British Historian, Cookery expert The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The Genre of spy fiction —sometimes called political thriller or spy thriller or sometimes shortened simply to Spy-fi —arose before Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view Jonathan Cape was a British Publisher founded in 1919 as Jonathan Page and Company; the name was changed in 1921 and it took over the back list of A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a Book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with Cloth Funeral in Berlin is a Spy novel by Len Deighton. The subject of the novel — arranging a Soviet scientist's defection — is dated but the characters The Genre of spy fiction —sometimes called political thriller or spy thriller or sometimes shortened simply to Spy-fi —arose before Leonard Cyril Deighton (born February 18, 1929, Marylebone, London) is a British Historian, Cookery expert An intelligence agency is a governmental agency that is devoted to the Information gathering (known in the context as " intelligence " The IPCRESS File was the first Spy novel by Len Deighton, published in 1962 Horse Under Water (1963 ISBN 0-399-10419-4 is the second of Len Deighton 's Spy novels featuring an anonymous British agent protagonist (named Funeral in Berlin is a Spy novel by Len Deighton. The subject of the novel — arranging a Soviet scientist's defection — is dated but the characters As in most of the author's novels, the plot of Billion-Dollar Brain is intricate, with many dead ends.

Plot

The eponymous billion-dollar brain is a supercomputer, operated by "Facts for Freedom" (FFF) a private, right-wing American intelligence agency, run by General Midwinter. A supercomputer is a Computer that is at the frontline of processing capacity particularly speed of calculation (at the time of its introduction The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Brain optimizes FFF agent operations, especially the deposition of Soviet power in Latvia — the FFF's test case insurgent operation for the ultimate destabilisation and deposition of world Communism. In Mathematics, the term optimization, or mathematical programming, refers to the study of problems in which one seeks to minimize or maximize a real function The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Latvia ( Latvija officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika is a Country in Northern Europe in the Baltic region. Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based MI6 send secret agent Harry Palmer to penetrate and stop the Finland FFF cell. Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe.

In Finland, the principal FFF agent is Harvey Newbegin, an opportunist American traitor running a phantom secret agent network in Latvia, and stealing the FFF money funding it, whilst passing intelligence to KGB Colonel Stok in Latvia. In Law, treason is the Crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one's sovereign or Nation. KGB ( Transliteration of "КГБ" is the Russian abbreviation of Committee for State Security ( Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty Meanwhile, in Britain, FFF agents infiltrated the Microbiological Research Establishment, Porton Down, England, stealing a weapons-grade virus. Porton Down is a UK government and military Science park. It is situated slightly northeast of Porton near Salisbury in Wiltshire, A virus (from the Latin virus meaning Toxin or Poison) is a sub-microscopic infectious agent that is unable The FFF agents believe it destined to be an American weapon against the Russians, but traitor Newbegin will sell it to the Communists.

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