Although it is anchored to the sea bed the cable is long enough so that it can float with one circular end a out of the water, enough to get the radio aerial clear of the sea. Two or three cafés – houses with a public front room – opened their doors, pale-green colour-washed walls were punctuated with calendar art, and crippled chairs leaned against the walls for support. The Proof D/W is larger than the proof itself which has resulted in some creasing and rubbing to the top edge. 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.

The Narrator patronises him about this because all the time Ossie, a professional burglar we met earlier in the novel, is breaking into da Cunha’s quarters and stealing the transmitter set to the frequency of the buoy at the bottom of the sea off Albufeira which contains the Weiss List. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. Slightest tap to lower corners else fine in red boards and first state black endpapers with crossword puzzle and clues on front and rear; the about fine dw has 1 tiny nick at the bottom of the rear panel.

He closed his eyes, gulped down his claret and leaned against the wall like a worn-out roll of line. On the boat, in the next scene, he is afraid lying on the deck ‘could earn me a slam on the kisser, too’ (p. This despite the fact that I could never quite bring myself to believe that a submersible weather buoy from 1945 would still be working when Harry Palmer and Petty Officer Edwards scoop it out of the sea at the end of the novel. The narrator’s offices are in unglamorous Charlotte Street, he lives in a flat in Southwark and his beady eye registers all the shabby details of modern life.

In the VERY RARE PROOF D/W with PROOF ONLY Provisional publication date 21st October, 1963 on the rear flap. An Expensive Place to Die A new departure, abandoning all the characters and much of the style of the first four novels for a more straightforward account of a secret agent in Paris who gets involved with a Monsieur Datt and his clinic-cum-brothel. The airport bus dredged through the sludge of traffic as sodium-arc lights jaundiced our way towards Slough. It hadn't occurred to me that it was on the technological forefront, I had always thought that the "horse" was the heroin.His spy novels chart the twists and turns of Britain and the Cold War in ways which now give them a unique flavour. A story of twists and turns well written with humour and wonderful descriptions The narrator was outstanding, probably the best I have heard on audible. The final impression is of a harrowing world where everyone is deceiving everyone else, on multiple levels. The subs with VLW receivers generally tow an antenna behind them which is arranged to float just below the surface. It is revealing how contemporary events in the ‘rival’ James Bond film series (which had the ever-restless Harry Saltzman as co-producer, alongside Albert R.

Good condition in goodish dustwrapper (all four corners clipped, sunned, creased, protective coating lifting in a few spots, water stains to upper right front at front flap and to foot of spine, sunned)). Head and tail of the spine minutely pushed and a neat name to the rear of the front free end-paper otherwise a near fine copy in a VG dustwrapper which is slightly tanned/browned. 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. The narrator references a Jayne Mansfield calendar and the latest Miles Davis disc playing in the American’s yacht (‘Miles Davis began to pump the cabin full of sound,’ p.Fernie’s life story Fernie tells his life story ie fighting for Franco during the Spanish War, volunteering as a Navy diver, being captured by the Germans, and recruited into The League of St George which would have become the Nazi Party in occupied Britain, led by Graham Loveless, Henry Smith’s nephew. Book is near fine with red boards with gilt lettering on spine and images of a black stamp and a blind imprint stamped on front cover.

As for family affairs: It is Bret who ends up marrying Bernard’s one-time lover, the glamorous Gloria; Bernard is finally promised the job of running the Berlin Office, which everyone has always said he should have: and the novel ends with a promise of reconciliation with his beautiful, high-flying and loving wife, Fiona.Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong Physical description; 255 pages ; 22 cm. Outside the sun reflected off the sea with a million flashing pinpoints of light, as though every bird was sitting there on the ocean top flashing angry white wings. Since Saltzman was talking during the period of Sean Connery’s absence from the Bond series, when the part was taken over – disastrously, as far as the box office was concerned – by George Lazenby, he had good reason to change his mind and let the series go. Either a 1960s period piece or a contemporary film version of Horse Under Water would still be a very welcome prospect for fans of Harry Palmer – and would surely represent a much more fitting comeback for the Palmer film series than the ‘straight-to-video’ Bullet to Beijing (1996) and Midnight in St.