| An Expensive Place to Die
(1967)
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| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Author |
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| Selling Price |
$6.50
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| Genre |
Fiction |
| Publication Date |
1967 |
| Format |
Hardcover
(220
mm)
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| Publisher |
G. P. Putnam's Sons |
| Language |
English |
| Extras |
Dust Jacket |
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| Plot |
In the frightening world of espionage - where good is often indistinguishable from evil and motives are as deceptive as appearances - nothing is certain but uncertainty. And in the dangerous games of the Cold War spy, in which all the rules of logic seem to fall apart, there is only one absolute - that Len Deighton, unique and inimitable, is master of the novelists who write of them.
'Dying in Paris is a terribly expensive business for a foreigner,' said Oscar Wilde, but he didn't know how expensive. Nor did he know Deighton's Paris - the Paris with its seamy underside, its up-to-the-minute concern for Chinese hydrogen bombs, hallucinogenic drugs, institutes for sex research, blackmail, murder, and the intimate actions of glittering diplomats.
As Deighton's anonymous agent becomes involved in the intricacies of a bone-chilling, all-to-plausible international crisis, as he is made personally responsible for heading off an impending catastrophe - a catastrophe born in a lie told to the world by the American Government and maturing rapidly into the imminent explosion of a Chinese hydrogen bomb - he finds that his only succor lies in the rejects of the world - duty-driven fanatics, sadists, perverts, and other social misfits.
Here a reader will encounter an entire new gallery of magnificently delineated Deighton immortals, including the strange Monsieur Datt, who hawks pleasure/pain for a living, for science, for political reasons, and for kicks and who has some very unusual methods of getting to know the private thoughts and habits of some very important people. |
| Personal Details |
| Condition |
Fair |
| Owner |
FamilyHistorySites |
| FHS ItemID |
20040397 |
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
PZ4.D324Ex |
| Dewey |
813.54 |
| ISBN |
1299890288 |
| Edition |
Book Club Edition |
| Nr of Pages |
252 |
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