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Horse Under Water
by Len Deighton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Sehr gut/Sehr gut
- Seller
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Oestrich-Winkel, Germany
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963 First edition, first impression. Jonathan Cape, London 1963. Jacket design by Raymond Hawkey.
Len Deighton's second Secret File about a sunken German U-boat which has lain undisturbed in the deep water of the Portugese Atlantic coast since WWII until now (anno 1963).Inside are Nazi-secrets people will kill to obtain. 'Horse Under Water' sees its nameless, laconic narrator sent from fogbound London to the Algarve, where he must dive through layers of deceit in a place rotten with betrayals.
Book is near fine with red boards with gilt lettering on spine and images of a black stamp and a blind imprint stamped on front cover. With crossword endpapers and a laid in reproduction of the original competition slip. Book has some mild soiling on topedges of the textblock and the boards.
Dust jacket is near fine. Unclipped and correct priced (16s. net). Slightly tanned and creased on the top edges. Now preserved in a transparent adaptaroll sleeve.
Synopsis
The dead hand of a long-defeated Nazi Third Reich reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech in Deighton's second novel, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of The IPCRESS File, but finds Dawlish now head of the secret British Intelligence unit, WOOC(P).The Ipcress File was a debut sensation. Here in the second Secret File, Horse under Water, skin-diving, drug trafficking and blackmail all feature in a curious story in which the dead hand of a long-defeated Hitler-Germany reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech, and to all the neo-Nazis of today's Europe.The detail is frightening but unfaultable; the story as up to date as ever it was. The un-named hero of The Ipcress File the same: insolent, fallible, capricious - in other words, human. But he must draw on all his abilities, good and bad, when plunged into a story of murder, betrayal and greed every bit as murky as the waters off the coast of Portugal, where the answers lie buried.
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- Bookseller
- Nik's Bookstore Versandantiquariat
(DE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000180
- Title
- Horse Under Water
- Author
- Len Deighton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Sehr gut
- Jacket Condition
- Sehr gut
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1. Auflage
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 8° - Oktavformat (bis 25 cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Oestrich-Winkel
About Nik's Bookstore Versandantiquariat
Nik's Bookstore is an online business which is located nearby Frankfurt am Main, Germany. We deliver Rare Books almost worldwide in superb quality. Most of them are scarce First Editions or Illustrated Author's Editions. Nik's Bookstore is member of the PBFA (Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association).
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