Spy story

Computer games run in a classified war studies centre in london. nuclear submarines prowl beneath arctic ice. and war games go into real time. patrick armstrong - possibly the same reluctant hero of the ipcress file - is sent to investigate. patrick armstrong is a tough, dedicated agent and war-games player. but in armstrong's violent, complex world, war-games are all too often played for real. soon the chase (or is it escape?) is on. from the secretive computerized college of war studies in london via a bleak, sinister scottish redoubt to the arctic ice cap where nuclear submarines prowl ominously beneath frozen wastes, a lethal web of violence and double-cross is woven. and europe's whole future hangs by a deadly thread... spy story is the most authentic and brilliant novel of espionage yet from the world's greatest writer of spy thrillers.