Buy this book on-line COOK, BOB: : DISORDERLY ELEMENTSLONDON.GOLLANCZ,1985. ISBN 0575037229.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE-/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Yellow dw/dj with red+black letters with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top edge very lightly dust-soiled, fore-edge bright and clean,contents pristine. Publisher's original,unblemished red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate - no off-setting - plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 9-184pp.Spy thriller novel.The author's debut novel.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a slightly higher grading. Despite it,it really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness.
A Communist mole in the very top level of British Security! Not even the Philby affair was half so serious.There's near-panic in the Cabinet.And,the shame of it,the British agent (Wyman) who has discovered the shocking truth, was himself about to be made redundant,as the Treasury axe falls even on Intelligence.
To keep the secret as closely confined as possible,it's Wyman who is given a new lease and sent abroad to nose out what he can.His report back is,if anything,even more appalling than his original discovery.He has contacted a hioghly placed East German who will tell all - at a price.His price is two million pounds.The Prime Minister is shatterred.What's going to happen to that policy of drastic cuts in public spending? The cost is unthinkable.
Yet what's the alternative? The biggest Security scandal yet? And with the CIA and KGB already getting into the act,putting on the pressure.
To reveal more would be to reveal too much.But what we can say is that this is an espionage thriller with a difference - witty and amusing, and,in the end,it's the Establishment that gets its come-uppance.
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