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DEATH WILL HAVE YOUR EYES:A NOVEL ABOUT SPIESby Sallis, James
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Book DescriptionNew York. 1997. St Martin’s. 1st Printing. Very Good In Dustjacket . pages: 184 pages. Cover: Jacket design by Eugene Kuo. keywords: Mystery Spies Literature. ISBN: 0312155131. David (as he’s currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone and for almost a decade he has been out of the rat race and working as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogue. They need David to stop him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the great board that is the American landscape, through the diners and motels that dot the terrain like green plastic houses on a Monopoly board. keywords: Mystery Spies Literature inventory # 24100. ISBN: 0312155131. Book summary"David" was trained as a member of an elite corps of spies during the Cold War. Now that the Russian threat is long over, he has little use for those skills in his ordinary daily life. But when word comes that the only other surviving member of the corps has turned rogue, David knows that it's up to him to secure the new world order.Media Reviews"The reward for patient readers is a finely poetic quality to every understated scene...." -- Kirkus "An enquiry, you may think, into the very nature of espionage and possibly the best, if not the last word on the subject." -- Philip Oakes, Literary Review Publisher NotesDavid (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone and for almost a decade he has been out of the rat race and working as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogue. They need David to stop him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the great board that is the American landscape, through the diners and motels that dot the terrain like green plastic houses on a Monopoly board. Other Recommended Books
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