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Horse Under Water
by Len Deighton
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good Indeed
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. A very smart first edition of the second of four Deighton spy novels. First edition. Lacking crossword insert and the first issue endpapers with the crosswords . The second of four Len Deighton spy novels featuring an unnamed British agent. It was preceded by 'The IPCRESS File' and followed by 'Funeral in Berlin'. Written by Len Deighton, a British author whose publications include cookery books, history and military history and spy novels. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Sunning to the spine and board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Black pastedowns and endpapers lacking crossword. Fine
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 872T83
- Title
- Horse Under Water
- Author
- Len Deighton
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Indeed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- Horse Under Water Deighton Under
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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