Editing The IPCRESS File (section)

{{short description|Spy novel}}
{{Other uses|The Ipcress File (disambiguation){{!}}The Ipcress File}}
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{{Infobox book
| name          = The IPCRESS File
| title_orig    =  
| image         = IpcressFile.JPG
| image_caption = First edition cover
| author        = Len Deighton
| illustrator   =  
| cover_artist  = [[Raymond Hawkey]]
| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
| series        = 
| genre         = 
| publisher     = Hodder & Stoughton
| pub_date     = 1962 (first edition)
| media_type    = Print
| pages         = 
| followed_by   = [[Horse Under Water]]
}}
'''''The IPCRESS File''''' is [[Len Deighton]]'s first [[spy novel]], published in 1962. The story involves [[Cold War]] [[brainwashing]] and includes scenes in [[Lebanon]] and on an atoll for a United States [[Nuclear weapons testing|atomic weapon test]], as well as information about [[Joe One]], the [[Soviet Union]]'s first atomic bomb. The story was made into [[The Ipcress File (film)|a film]] in 1965 produced by [[Harry Saltzman]], directed by [[Sidney J. Furie]] and starring [[Michael Caine]]; and a [[The Ipcress File (TV series)|2022 TV series]], starring [[Joe Cole (actor)|Joe Cole]], [[Lucy Boynton]] and [[Tom Hollander]].