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
Laughter in the Dark (novel) and Jean-Claude Drouot played Axel Rex. The book features in series 3 episode 8 of the television series Lost. Laughter in the Dark (novel) Laughter in the Dark (Original Russian title: Камера обскура, "Camera obscura") is a novel written by Vladimir Nabokov and serialised in "Sovremennye Zapiski" in 1932. The first English translation, "Camera Obscura", was made by Winifred Roy and published in London in 1936 by Johnathan Long, the paperback imprint of Hutchinson Publishing, with the author credited as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin. Nabokov was so displeased by the translation's quality that he undertook his own, which was published in 1938