Horse Under Water - Len Deighton
Paperback book
Penguin 1965 (Copyright 1963)
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).
The Ipcress File was a debut
sensation. 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.
The detail is frightening but unfaultable; the story as up to date as ever it
was. The un-named hero of The Ipcress File the same: insolent,
fallible, capricious - in other words, human. But he must draw on all his abilities, good
and bad, when plunged into a story of murder, betrayal and greed every bit as
murky as the waters off the coast of Portugal, where the answers lie buried.
Condition:
The book is in good condition for its age.
The cover has slight edge wear especially to the spine (which has a
small split at the bottom), a couple of slightly creased / bent corners, vertical
creases to the spine, faint surface marks and scratches and slight age browning
in places. Inside, the book has a couple
of slightly creased / bent corners, minor marks and wear and slight age
browning especially around the edges.
The pages appear to be in tight and clean condition.