Thrown into the mix is secret "ice melting" technology, which could be vital to the missile submarines then beginning to hide under the Arctic sea ice. Then the third element is the assortment of foreigners he meets in Portugal, who each seem to have their own agendas. However, the image of this tireless machine traveling twice a day from the sea bed up to the surface is really too striking to abandon. This was the bland name given by Michael Caine to the nameless ‘anti-hero’ of Len Deighton’s original spy novels.

Two sailors in white were vomiting their agonising way to the Wharf and another was sitting on the pavement near Queen’s Hotel. XPD SIS agent Boyd Stuart is one of about 20 characters caught up in the quest for the ‘Hitler Minutes’, records of a top secret meeting between Hitler and Churchill in May 1940 in which the latter was (shockingly) on the verge of capitulating, and which were ‘liberated’ by US soldiers, along with a load of Nazi gold, at the very end of the war. The dead hand of a long-defeated Nazi Third Reich reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech in Deighton's second novel, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of The IPCRESS File, but finds Dawlish now head of the secret British Intelligence unit, WOOC(P). We follow a senior detective at Scotland Yard, Douglas Archer, living in defeated dingy London, coping with his new Nazi superiors, and solving a murder mystery which unravels to reveal not one but several enormous conspiracies. Goodbye, Mickey Mouse Six months in the life of the 220th Fighter Group, an American Air Force group flying Mustangs in support of heavy bombers, based in East Anglia, from winter 1943 through spring 1944, as we get to know 20 or so officers and men, as well as the two women at the centre of the two ill-fated love affairs which dominate the story.He becomes nervous and the Narrator spots him heading off one night for a secret rendezvous; then, when accompanying the Narrator on the latter’s first dive to the U-boat, Giorgio is murdered, his diving suit shredded, his arm badly mauled, he dies of shock and blood loss as the Narrator just about manages to bring him ashore. In many places the sentences don’t follow as a train of thought but jump from one facet to another, like an attempt to see all the angles of a situation at the same moment. Silas commissioned Jim Prettyman to be the middle-man and instructed him to murder the actual assassin, Thurkettle.

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. I think I’d just wait until the buoy surfaced, as it does every 12 hours anyway, and then send it a command to stay on the surface using normal HF radio. Harry Kondit, known as HK – loud American who approaches them on the beach and quickly is inviting to them to dinner, knows all about the diving. This particular novel is the second in the series featuring the unnamed secret agent working for the British intelligence agency.the Narrator opens it on board a naval vessel and, sure enough, it contains detailed correspondence with high ranking British Nazi sympathisers. Len doesn’t go into details but I assumed that such a machine would be like a small submarine with a floodable chamber to make it sink and a compressed air cylinder to clear that chamber of water to make it surface again. After numerous encounters with various old friends of his father and retired agents, Samson finds himself swept up in the brutal, bloody plan to secure Fiona’s escape from the East. In a shock scene is killed when he gets into the Narrator’s car at Heathrow airport and it explodes.

It was to hide the existence of the Weiss List, not to cover the heroin smuggling that his car was blown up at Heathrow. 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. prominently displayed on the cover suggesting a direct link, but it is not so much a sequel as part of a series of novels about the same British spy (unnamed in the novels, though given the name Harry Palmer in the series of movies starring Michael Caine). 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 one in the book appears to be free floating - once PO Edwardes gets a line around it they haul it straight up into the helicopter.