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Deighton, Len Charity
HarperTorch November 1, 199 0-06-109602-4 / 9780061096020 Paperback Near Fine
After steering master spy Bernard Samson through Faith and Hope, Len Deight on wraps up his trilogy with a predictable dose of. Although the beleaguere d spook has plenty of intrigue to deal with, this installment seems more di ffuse and less plot-driven than its predecessors. Still, Deighton fans will probably enjoy the resolution of several outstanding cliffhangers, includi ng the likelihood of a decent retirement package for the protagonist. From Publishers Weekly With this successor to Faith and Hope, British spy Bernard Samson has used up nine lives as the hero of three trilogies. Yet he, and Deighton, remain full of vitality. In his latest depiction of the hermetic world of English spies, "all those inscrutable public-school ruffians," Deighton brings us up to 1988. Because Deighton's work is an evolving saga of spycraft channeled through Samson's life and times, readers unfamiliar with the earlier books may feel like newcomers at a dinner party for old friends. As Deighton regulars appear-including Samson's tortured, rising intelligence star, Fiona; her vulgar father; department members Dicky, Bret and Gloria; Samson's mentor, Silas; and his boyhood pal, Werner-there's a lot of hashing and re-hashing of old and new murders, a dying ex-spy and a missing lockbox. Quickly enough, all readers will be swept up by the complicated plot and by Samson's sly asides: "Maps are of course the decor adopted by men reluctant to display their taste in art"; an American Anglophile's car "was tall and angular, built in those days before every Rolls wanted to squat down and look like a Mercedes." Despite an ending that is surprisingly m
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Deighton, Len Charity
Harpercollins December 1, 199 0-06-018728-X / 9780060187286 1st Edition Hardcover F/NF
A highly collectible first edition, tight clean copy, protected in a new br odart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. With this successor to Faith and Hope, British spy Bernard Samson has used up nine lives as the hero of three trilogies. Yet he, and Deighton, remain full of vitality. In his latest depiction of the hermetic world of English spies, "all those inscrutable public-school ruffians," Deighton brings us u p to 1988. Because Deighton's work is an evolving saga of spycraft channele d through Samson's life and times, readers unfamiliar with the earlier book s may feel like newcomers at a dinner party for old friends. As Deighton re gulars appear-including Samson's tortured, rising intelligence star, Fiona; her vulgar father; department members Dicky, Bret and Gloria; Samson's men tor, Silas; and his boyhood pal, Werner-there's a lot of hashing and re-has hing of old and new murders, a dying ex-spy and a missing lockbox. Quickly enough, all readers will be swept up by the complicated plot and by Samson' s sly asides: "Maps are of course the decor adopted by men reluctant to dis play their taste in art"; an American Anglophile's car "was tall and angula r, built in those days before every Rolls wanted to squat down and look lik e a Mercedes." Despite an ending that is surprisingly mild, this tale, like those before it, is well crafted and reliably satisfying. $100,000 ad/prom o; simultaneous HarperPaper publication of Hope; U.K., translation rights: Brie Burkeman; first serial and dramatic rights: Jonathan Clowes. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Deighton, Len City of Gold
William Morrow & Company, In If the author of The Ipcress File is not at the very top of his form here, he nevertheless produces an absorbing and well-crafted WW II thriller. In J anuary 1942, infamous Gen. Erwin Rommel is making a seemingly unstoppable m arch on Cairo, the "city of gold." Former Glasgow police detective Bert Cut ler, now an Army captain, has been charged to uncover the spy who is feedin g the Desert Fox information enabling him to thwart all British strategies. En route to his new post, Cutler escorts fellow Scotsman Jimmy Ross, accus ed of murder, to the military prison in Cairo. When Cutler dies of a heart attack in their private train compartment, Ross assumes his identity. Reade rs might expect that Ross's efforts to carry off the impersonation and capt ure Rommel's agent will be the focus of this 24th offering from an acknowle dged master of espionage fiction, yet Ross is only one member of an intrigu ing ensemble cast, which includes a society girl turned undercover agent, a British deserter heading up a band of renegades, an exiled Russian prince and King Farouk himself. Story lines concern not just the war but also blac k-market activities and the efforts of Jewish operatives to arm themselves for the anticipated battle for a homeland. Directing his varied characters and juggling his many subplots, Deighton demonstrates enviable legerdemain.
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Deighton, Len Faith
Harpercollins December 1, 199 0-06-109419-6 / 9780061094194 Paperback Near Fine
Deighton's beleaguered British spy, Bernard Samson, returns to kick off the third trilogy in the outstanding series that has run from 1984's Berlin Ga me through 1990's Spy Sinker. Taking up where Sinker left off, in the fall of 1987 (thus making Deighton perhaps the only major thriller author who's still writing about the Cold War), this rich entry finds Samson leaving Cal ifornia to pick up VERDI, code name for a high-ranking East German Stasi of ficer who may be defecting to Britain's SIS. The operation goes disastrousl y wrong during a shoot-out in East Germany, but Samson manages to get back to London, where he encounters real danger and fighting: the take-no-prison ers politicking within the SIS, involving Samson, his duplicitous wife and a slew of internal enemies and possible friends. Deighton's penchant for ex plosive violence, telling detail and throwaway humor (too much coffee, Sams on comments to his boss, "'makes some people very tense.' 'Not me,' said Di cky, biting into a fingernail. 'I'm used to it'") are much in evidence here , and readers will enjoy some of the finest intramural politicking since C. P. Snow. What's more problematic is whether they'll relish a tale set in th e Cold War and thus lacking the unpredictability of stories set in the post -Soviet world or the nostalgia of those evoking less recent wars, like Deig hton's own SS-GB. Given the author's mastery of the genre, though, the odds are that they will, strongly.
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Deighton, Len Goodbye Mickey Mouse
HarperCollins February 19, 19 0-586-05448-0 / 9780586054482 Paperback Fair
'The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world' - H R F Keati ng, The Times 'It is a novel of memory, satisfying on every imaginable level, but truly a stonishing In Its recreation of a time and place through minute detail. Dei ghton has written well of the air before, nonfictionally, and he informs us in an afterword that it took six years of research to do this novel. It sh ows. The only way you could know more about flying a P-51 Mustang, after re ading this book, is to have flown one' - WASHINGTON POST 'He writes, as usual, with authority and a superb sense of period' - DAILY TELEGRAPH
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DEIGHTON, LEN Goodbye Mickey Mouse
Ballantine Books September 12, 1 0-345-31146-9 / 9780345311467 Paperback Very Good
"Goodbye Mickey Mouse" is Len Deighton's finest novel since Bomber. Seen t hrough the eyes of many different characters, this book offers a rare and p enetrating insight into every kind of military mind
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Deighton, Len Horse Under Water
Grafton October 1, 1976 0-586-04431-0 / 9780586044315 Paperback Good+
Page a bit loose o/w a clean copy.A thriller involving skin-diving, drug-tr afficking and blackmail. The dead hand of a long-defeated Hitler-Germany re aches out to Portugal, London and Marrakesh and to all the neo-Nazis of mod ern Europe.
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Len Deighton London Match
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS 19861113 0-586-06635-7 / 9780586066355 Paperback Very Good
The conclusion to the trilology. Bernard has got Erich Stinnes back from Me xico - now he has to get him to talk.
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Deighton, Len Mamista
Arrow February 20, 19 0-09-913021-1 / 9780099130215 Paperback Very Good
Spanish Guiana - riddled with war, drugs and rival guerrilla factions - is the setting for this adventure about a group of people who find themselves locked into a life or death mission. But for the Pentagon it is just a cyni cal game being played out around the discovery of oil in the Republic.
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Deighton, Len Mamista
HarperTorch August 1, 1992 0-06-109094-8 / 9780061090943 Paperback Very Good
Veteran spy novelist Deighton's latest--a four-week PW bestseller in hardco ver--trails diverse political interests in a South American jungle, ultimat ely disappointing with its unraveling plot and elusive characters.
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Deighton, Len SPY HOOK
Bantam Books 1989 0-345-36211-X / 9780345362117 1st Edition Paperback Very Good
This is the first installment in a new espionage series, "Hook, Line, and S inker," a sequel to Deighton's masterful "Game, Set, Match" trilogy. Bernar d Samson, still trying to straighten out his life after his wife's defectio n to the KGB, finds top level Secret Service complicity in the disappearanc e of a half million dollars in departmental funds. Is this a simple case of embezzlement or of mismanagement, or is it the work of a KGB mole? Has Sam son stumbled upon a top-secret operation, one in which his wife is a double agent? At novel's end Samson is on the run in Berlin, and the reader is ea ger for the next book. Deighton is the only worthy rival to John LeCarre.
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Deighton, Len Spy Story
Triad Books May 13, 1976 0-586-04142-7 / 9780586041420 Paperback Very Good
Great cold war thriller from one of the masters of the genre. From the secr etive computerised college of war studies in London via a bleak, sinister S cottish redoubt to the Arctic ice cap where nuclear submarines prowl ominou sly beneath frozen wastes, a lethal web of violence and double cross is wov en. And Europe's whole future hangs by a deadly thread...
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Deighton, Len Violent Ward
William Morrow & Company, In Deighton's latest, an enjoyable departure from his tales of British espiona ge ( City of Gold , etc.), introduces a protagonist with definite series po tential. Harried L.A. lawyer Mickey Murphy is plagued by a slew of eccentri cs who fully bear out the book's epigraph: "If America is a lunatic asylum then California is the Violent Ward." Among them are an ex-wife who tries t o get more alimony by perching on the ledge outside his office, a slightly over-the-hill actor in search of a handgun, a Robert Maxwell clone called S ir Jeremy Westbridge and a Trump-like entrepreneur named Zach Petrovich, wh o owns Murphy's law firm and is married to his high school sweetheart. Thei r maneuverings spark a complicated plot whose many ramifications include a charitable organization that doubles as a clearinghouse for those seeking t o fake their own deaths and the set-up of a tax-free Peruvian corporation t hrough the use of bearer shares, but Murphy keeps all the craziness in pers pective with a first-person narration that unfolds as a series of quiet, su btle surprises. Told in perfect Dashiell Hammett style, with the clues all noted but never underlined, this novel respects the reader's intelligence a nd almost begs for a rereading just to savor how skillfully Deighton has wo ven everything together.
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Len Deighton Violent Ward (Uk Edition)
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS 19940912 0-00-647901-4 / 9780006479017 Paperback Near Fine
Mickey Murphy is a criminal lawyer with an office in LA's downtown low-rent district, an ex-wife who bleeds him for money, clients who would plead the Fifth Amendment if they could count that high, and an unrequited passion f or his wealthiest client's wife.
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Len Deighton Winter
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS 19881027 0-586-06895-3 / 9780586068953 Paperback Very Good
Len Deighton is the author of "The Ipcress File " and numerous other thrill ers as well as non fiction books.
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