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'Breathless suspense ... taut action ... manages to achieve depth as a novel without ever letting up its adventurous pace ...
A grand book for every le Carre reader' The New York Times Book ReviewLewis Cane fought with the French Resistance during the Second World War and gained a justified reputation as a tough and resourceful man.
So it's no great surprise when one of his ex-Resistance comrades, now a successful lawyer in the early 1960s in Paris employs him to escort a businessman from Brittany to Liechtenstein for a crucial meeting. There are just two problems: the man's associates don't want him to get there, and the police have a warrant out for the man's arrest on a charge of rape.
For Cane, it becomes a desperate race across France, fighting against resourceful and ruthless adversaries and avoiding the forces of law and order every step of the way ...
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:19/05/2005
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- ISBN:9780752867175
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
- Publication Date:19/05/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780752867175
