The Unlikely Spy
by Silva, Daniel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- N-Fine/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0297817906
- ISBN 13
- 9780297817901
- Seller
-
Lewisville, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996. Book. N-Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight very carefully read copy of the author's first novel. This copy has some light pagedge soil else fine. The £15.99 jacket has some light rubbing wear, minor edgewear, a short closed tear else fine. A really nice British First of Silva's first book. An Alfred Vicary novel. This copy includes a picture of Daniel that I snapped at a signing event. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY..
Synopsis
In wartime," Winston Churchill wrote, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." For Britain's counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable-a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor. The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent: Catherine Blake, a beautiful widow of a war hero, a hospital volunteer-and a Nazi spy under direct orders from Hitler to uncover the Allied plans for D-Day...
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pat Cramer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027293
- Title
- The Unlikely Spy
- Author
- Silva, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - N-Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0297817906
- ISBN 13
- 9780297817901
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
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Terms of Sale
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I accept cash, checks, money orders and bank cards. International orders paid by check must be made out to a United States bank branch. International orders paid by money order must be a postal money order made out in United States dollars. You can return any book that you purchase from me if you are not satisfied with it.
About the Seller
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2006
Lewisville, Texas
About Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I have been selling used and rare books internationally since 1985.I tend to list modern fiction because that is what i know the most about.I specialize on horror and suspense fiction because these are two areas that i enjoy most and because they are two areas that I know the most aboutI am not a generalist dealer but I have been known to list a small percentage of anything that looks interesting to me, fiction and non-fiction, to bring new customers to my site.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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