- Fiction in English, Organized crime, Moles (Spies), English Spy stories
An agent of the British Government is sent on a new and deadly assignment - to snare The Scarperers (a notorious gang of criminals who organise gaol-breaking for long-term prisoners) and Slade, a notorious Russian double agent whom they have recently liberated.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and unpretentious.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Desmond Bagley
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Collins, The Companion Book Club, THE COMPANION BOOK CLUB
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780008211240
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