London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. [Spy Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.410. Publisher's grey quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and purple paper-covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.99. Gently toned to edges, with some minor water staining to spine, boards and jacket. Jacket slightly sunned to spine. Very good. Harry Pendel is the best known tailor in Panama and is hired by all the top brass, but his past is a well hidden secret - until the British secret agent Andrew Osnard turns up. Basis for John Boorman's 2001 film, with James Bond star Pierce Brosnan as Osnard, Geoffrey Rush as Pendel, Jamie Lee Curtis as his wife Louisa and, in an early appearance, future Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe as their son Mark. Item #58727

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