"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1968. [Espionage Thriller] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, black and blind decoration to upper, and orange endpapers. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the blue illustrated dust-jacket. Quite heavy spotting to edges. Some dulling to gilt and spine. Jacket price-clipped, with light rubbing and chipping to edges. Very good. Deighton's second novel, with the same narrator as in The Ipcress File, Dawlish finds himself head of intelligence unit W.O.O.C.(P0). In this novel the hand of the defeated Nazi Third Reich reaches out to Europe and the middle east. First published in the UK in 1963. Item #58420
Price: £55.00