- Fiction, Fiction in English, Large type books, Mystery
"It'll be simple", they said at the Department. "You'll just be a messenger boy". But to Alan Stewart, on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, it looks anything but simple. Someone very ruthless is after the innocent-looking parcel he carries, and Kenniken, a Russian agent with the best of reasons for hating him, has followed him to Iceland.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Desmond Bagley
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 242
- Publisher
- Perennial Library, Companion Book Club, Doubleday
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780745118994
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