- Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, action & adventure, World war, 1939-1945, fiction
The battle-scarred Major Harry Maxim, Intelligence aide at Number 10 Downing Street, must find what links a deserting corporal, East German politics, a double killing in West Germany, a South London fight club, and a widowed Yorkshire piano teacher.
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Classical in form, grave, cool and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Gavin Lyall
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Ulverscroft, Hodder and Stoughton, ISIS Audio Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780340588659
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Gavin Tudor Lyall (9 May 1932 – 18 January 2003) was an English author of espionage thrillers.
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