Action cook book: Len Deighton's guide to eating

'I am going to cook you the best meal you have ever tasted in your life ... ' Harry Palmer to Sue Lloyd in "The Ipcress Files". The Action Cook Book was once an instructional book for the bachelor male - a guide to sophisticated cooking for the would-be Harry Palmer. It now has a great following as a fabulous piece of nostalgia as well as retaining real credibility as a genuinely useful cook book -- front endpaper.