An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton

An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton

'For sheer readability he has no peer' Evening Standard Paris in the 1960's caters for every taste, and nowhere more than at the private 'clinic' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch, which supplies psychedelic drugs and sexual favours to the city's elite - all the while secretly filming guests in order to blackmail them. Into this decadent underworld steps a bespectacled British spy. Sent on what seems like a simple mission, he soon finds himself playing a game where the rules are unknown - and even victory could be fatal. 'Take this excellent thriller at a single gulp' Sunday Times A PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL

A first-rate storyteller who rarely if ever strikes a false note* Daily Mail *
Take this excellent thriller at a single gulp. * Sunday Times *
For sheer readability he has no peer. * Evening Standard *
Len Deighton is the Flaubert of the contemporary thriller writers. -- Michael Howard * Times Literary Supplement *

Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London. He did his national service in the RAF, went to the Royal College of Art and designed many book jackets, including the original UK edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The enormous success of his first spy novel, The IPCRESS File (1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following decades. These varied from historical fiction (Bomber, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction (SS-GB) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War (Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly).

His spy novels chart the twists and turns of Britain and the Cold War in ways which now give them a unique flavour. They preserve a world in which Europe contains many dictatorships, in which the personal can be ruined by the ideological and where the horrors of the Second World War are buried under only a very thin layer of soil. Deighton's fascination with technology, his sense of humour and his brilliant evocation of time and place make him one of the key British espionage writers, alongside John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré.

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ISBN 13	9780241505342
ISBN 10	0241505348
Titel	An Expensive Place to Die
Autor	Len Deighton
Serie	Penguin Modern Classics
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2021-09-30
Seitenanzahl	240
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