Buy this book on-line Deighton, Len : CharityHarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, 1996 ISBN 006018728X
Over 16 Oz. Light shelf wear, inside pages clean and bright, no page wrinkles, possibly read very little. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Deighton, Len : Charity. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Deighton, Len : CHARITYHarperCollins, 1996 ISBN 9780060187286
A highly collectible first edition, tight clean copy, protected in a new br odart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex- Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. With this successor to Faith and Hope, British spy Bernard Samson has used up nine lives as the hero of three trilogies. Yet he, and Deighton, remain full of vitality. In his latest depiction of the hermetic world of English spies, "all those inscrutable public-school ruffians," Deighton brings us u p to 1988. Because Deighton's work is an evolving saga of spycraft channele d through Samson's life and times, readers unfamiliar with the earlier book s may feel like newcomers at a dinner party for old friends. As Deighton re gulars appear-including Samson's tortured, rising intelligence star, Fiona; her vulgar father; department members Dicky, Bret and Gloria; Samson's men tor, Silas; and his boyhood pal, Werner-there's a lot of hashing and re-has hing of old and new murders, a dying ex-spy and a missing lockbox. Quickly enough, all readers will be swept up by the complicated plot and by Samson' s sly asides: "Maps are of course the decor adopted by men reluctant to dis play their taste in art"; an American Anglophile's car "was tall and angula r, built in those days before every Rolls wanted to squat down and look lik e a Mercedes." Despite an ending that is surprisingly mild, this tale, like those before it, is well crafted and reliably satisfying. $100,000 ad/prom o; simultaneous HarperPaper publication of Hope; U.K., translation rights: Brie Burkeman; first serial and dramatic rights: Jonathan Clowes. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc., F/NF Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Deighton, Len : CHARITY. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, out-of-print books, libri antichi, atlases and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |