The innocent
1990, First Edition. London : Cape. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 231 pages; Physical desc. : 231p. ; 24cm. Subject: Espionage - Germany - Berlin - Fiction. Cold War - Fiction. Contempoarary British fiction. Review: In part a thriller, in which the machinations of a top-secret Cold War telephone-tapping operation (the real-life 1955 Operation Gold in Berlin) are investigated and explained, and in part a murder/romance - boy meets girl, boy meets girl's ex-husband, ex-husband meets a graphically sticky end. Concise and controlled; a masterly, evocative page-turner --(Kirkus UK). Item #177521
ISBN: 0224027832
Price: €21.00