Horse Under Water

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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. For example, a colleague who’s been helping out on the Portugal job gets into our man’s car at the London Airport car park to drive it over to him and the car explodes, killing this colleague, as our man watches. Why would the US military invite a bunch of British spies to observe a nuclear test in the South Pacific including a suspected double-agent? Against his better judgement the Narrator is seduced by her, whereupon she tips him off about HK’s heroin factory. The author's second novel, which was read in proof form by Ian Fleming (who shared the same publisher as Deighton).

We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work.And, in keeping with the fundamental worldview of the books that the world is vastly more complicated and fractured than any one narrative can capture – ‘There would always be unexplainable actions by unpredictable people. A 1968 film adaptation of Horse Under Water was planned, but following the poor reception of Billion Dollar Brain it was abandoned. The majority of text in the Alistair MacLean novels I’ve been reading consists of the hero thinking through very thoroughly all possible avenues of action, sharing and involving the reader in his high-tension predicament, then doing it all over again as the situations change and plans have to be adapted. A member of our staff will bid on your behalf and attempt to purchase the lot as cheaply as is permitted by other bids or reserves. pages, enormous cast, documentary prose, terrifying death and destruction – a really devastating indictment of the horrors of war.

Albufeira The first half of the book is dominated by diving: the Narrator’s (comic) diving instruction by the Navy at Portsmouth; then the flight to Gibraltar, picking up Joe MacIntosh, Our Man in Spain, and an Italian named Girgio, the Best Diver In Europe; then the drive to the fishing village of Albufeira and setting up base in an apartment there. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Marrakesh Here there is a bizarre scene where the Narrator uses influence with the local police to track down da Cunha, and interview him. Deighton’s style incorporates a wide array of prose strategies: very clipped factual; poetic prose, specially nature scenes; brief dialogue snippets; technical specifications; English posh (upon, whilst, amongst), quoting newspapers, TV adverts. Bound in red cloth-covered hard boards, gilt titles to the spine and decoration to the upper board in black and blind stamp; in the original dustwrapper which is clipped to the inside flap.The secret weather buoys generally used by the wartime Kriegsmarine were not as sophisticated as the one described in the novel. After dinner Senhor da Cunha hands him a package claiming it was washed up with a body from the U boat: N takes it back to London where it is identified as a good quality die for forging British sovereigns. The book is preceded by The Ipcress File and followed by Funeral In Berlin and was the only one of the series not adapted into film. Near Fine condition book which only the most minor of wear in a Very Good jacket which is tanned and a little worn to the edges.