Horse Under Water

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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. Via old contacts the narrator realises Champion is active again, but working for Arabs who are planning some kind of attack on Israel and which the narrator must foil. In the meantime, Deighton and Palmer fans can only hope that this particular Horse will yet get a to have a refreshing drink at the box office at some point in the not-too-distant future.

I hope some new actor can give his interpretation of Harry,’ said Caine, ‘but after three films I don’t think the Palmer character holds anything for me anymore.Worth remembering that, before his writing career took off, Deighton studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art, won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, worked as an illustrator in New York and as an art director in an advertising agency. The publisher s blurb on the rear cover is different, and the inside front flap carries a photograph of Len Deighton watching two Royal Navy frogmen demonstrating high-speed dressing at H.

Plague journals, escapist literature, political history: explore our year in review, where we share rare book trends and a gallery of some of the most beautiful and interesting books sold in 2020. Over a post-coital cigarette she mentions HK runs a big cannery factory, which generates lots of acetic acid, hence the vinegar smell. A story of twists and turns well written with humour and wonderful descriptions The narrator was outstanding, probably the best I have heard on audible.The text is packed with inconsequential detail, overheard snippets of conversation, fragments (like the fragments of demotic life quoted in the classic Modernist texts of Joyce or Eliot).

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. 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. It feels like the story is finished to me, but it in fact continues for another 30 pages of densely packed narrative. Against his better judgement the Narrator is seduced by her, whereupon she tips him off about HK’s heroin factory.Well, not knowing exactly what Len found in the archives of the War Museum I’ve tried to work it out for myself. Here in the second Secret File, Horse under Water, skin-diving, drug trafficking and blackmail all feature in a curious story in which the dead hand of a long-defeated Hitler-Germany reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech, and to all the neo-Nazis of today's Europe. Near Fine condition book which only the most minor of wear in a Very Good jacket which is tanned and a little worn to the edges.