Horse Under Water

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Indeed, some Slocum gliders can exploit the thermal gradients of the ocean to ascend in the same way fashion as airborne gliders. Saltzman did look around for another actor – ‘We don’t want anyone who looks like Mike and he probably won’t even wear spectacles or even be a cockney,’ he said – but nothing ever came of the idea. Funeral in Berlin The Unnamed Narrator is in charge of smuggling a Russian scientist through the Berlin Wall, all managed by a Berlin middle-man Johnnie Vulkan who turns out to be a crook only interested in getting fake identity papers to claim the fortune of a long-dead concentration camp victim.

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. He gets air traffic control in Gibraltar to follow the plane as it flies across the Med to Marrakesh. Having read all the early ones, I’ve realised the best thing is to relax and enjoy the view – the style and presentation – and let the plot look after itself.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The plot involves reacquaintance with familiar characters like Werner Volkmann, Frau Lisl (and her sister), old Frank Harrington, tricky Dicky Cruyer, Bernie’s 23-year-old girlfriend Gloria Kent, and so on.

Slid the narrow glance’ has Raymond Chandler’s feel for exotic ways of describing looks, his obsession with eyes. The book is preceded by The Ipcress File and followed by Funeral In Berlin and was the only one of the series not adapted into film. It hadn't occurred to me that it was on the technological forefront, I had always thought that the "horse" was the heroin. vii] It is believed that the actor that producer Harry Saltzman had in mind to replace Michael Caine in the role of Harry Palmer was Nigel Davenport.Horse Under Water, Len Deighton, Jonathan Cape, 1963, First Edition, First Impression The second of four spy novels featuring an unnamed British agent protagonist. Diving There is a plot, of course, quite a few plots in fact, which keep our narrator (and us) confused right up to the end of the text.

We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings.The plan is to retrieve counterfeit Nazi money the sub is reported to have been carrying, and use it fund Portuguese revolutionaries who are planning to overthrow the Salazar dictatorship. As a bonus it can power the radio and send a radio signal every time it surfaces - the regular report of local weather conditions that is the primary function of the weather buoy. Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: Spine The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding.