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Denis Hillier is an aging British agent based in Yugoslavia. His old school friend Roper has defected to the USSR to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must bring Roper back to England or risk losing his fat retirement bonus.
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- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Anthony Burgess
- First published
- August 12, 1969
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., Ballantine, Heinemann
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780140029116
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John Anthony Burgess Wilson, who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire *A Clockwork Orange* remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including The Observer and The Guardian, and wrote studies of classic writers, n
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