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The Confidential Agent, Paperback / softback Book

The Confidential Agent Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN‘In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety’ William GoldingIn a small continental country civil war is raging.

Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a government agent, D is a scarred stranger in England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price.

Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, held responsible for the death of a young woman, D becomes a hunted man, tormented by allegiances, doubts and love.

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