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XPD
by Deighton, Len
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0091445701
- ISBN 13
- 9780091445706
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: hutchinson, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1981 first edition. size octavo, 8.75" x 5.25", 397 pages. black hardcover with gilt titles to the spine, red end-papers. book condition near fine, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, else fine, contents very clean, no inscriptions. dust jacket condition very good plus, top edge creased and slightly browned along crease, bottom edge slightly creased, else fine, not price-clipped. This novel is constructed around the supposition that Winston Churchill secretly met with Adolf Hitler in 1940 to discuss the terms of a British surrender. Forty years later, Hitler's personal minutes of the discussions are threatening to surface.
Synopsis
A private aircraft takes off from a small town in central France, while Adolf Hitler, the would-be conqueror of Europe, prepares for a clandestine meeting near the Belgian border. For more than forty years the events of this day have been Britain's most closely guarded secret. Anyone who learns of them must die - with their file stamped:XPD - Expedient Demise.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013688
- Title
- XPD
- Author
- Deighton, Len
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0091445701
- ISBN 13
- 9780091445706
- Publisher
- hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FICTION THRILLER SPY SPIES ESPIONAGE FRANCE FRENCH PARIS CRIME ADVENTURE ACTION INTRIGUE
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
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Blackpool, Lancashire
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