Horse Under Water (Uncorrected Proof, inscribed by the author)
by Len Deighton
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- Signed
- Condition
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About This Item
Very Good plus in wrappers, in a Good only dust jacket. Manuscript ink annotation on the first leaf. Jacket is moderately edgeworn and toned at the extremities, with a few small splashes on the heel and rear hinge professionally repaired.
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
- Seller
- Royal Books, Inc. (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 157451
- Title
- Horse Under Water (Uncorrected Proof, inscribed by the author)
- Author
- Len Deighton
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Mystery and Crime | Uncorrected Proofs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Uncorrected Proofs; Mystery and Crime;
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Uncorrected Proof
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- Inscribed
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...