The IPCRESS File The IPCRESS File The IPCRESS File is Len Deighton's first spy novel, published in 1962. It was made into a film in 1965 produced by Harry Saltzman, directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Michael Caine. The novel, which involves Cold War brainwashing, includes scenes in Lebanon and on an atoll for a United States atomic weapon test, as well as information about Joe One, the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb, although these elements did not appear in the film version. The novel is framed as the unnamed protagonist delivering his personal report on "the IPCRESS affair" directly to the
Charles Logan (author) Charles Logan (author) Charles Logan (born 1930) is a British science fiction writer and professional nurse. He is best known as the author of the book "Shipwreck," first published by Gollancz in 1975, which was the winner of the prize for the best British sci-fi novel that year. The novel tells the story of Tansis, sole survivor after his spaceship shipwreck, who landed on a planet around Capella, the main star of the Virgo constellation. Tansis fights alone against the hostile environment, struggling to survive. Logan wrote only "Shipwreck" and a couple of short stories that have never been published.