Horse Under Water
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Beneath the sun-drenched waters off the Portuguese coast lies a sunken German U-boat — and with it, secrets that certain powerful men would kill to keep buried. Horse under Water is a taut, labyrinthine spy thriller in which Len Deighton's unnamed British intelligence operative is dispatched to recover a cache of forged currency, only to find himself ensnared in a web of blackmail, double-cross, and Cold War paranoia that stretches from the Lisbon underworld to the corridors of Whitehall. The second novel in Deighton's landmark spy series, published in 1963, this work cements his reputation as the antidote to the glamorised espionage of Ian Fleming. Where Bond dazzles, Deighton's protagonist navigates a world of bureaucratic obstruction, moral ambiguity, and working-class grit — rendered in the author's characteristically clipped, cinematic prose. Rich with authentic period detail and laced with dry, sardonic wit, Horse under Water argues that the real danger in espionage is never the enemy across the table, but the one sitting beside you — a proposition that lingers long after the final page.
Author: Len Deighton
Format: Hardback
Genre: Thriller
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Beneath the sun-drenched waters off the Portuguese coast lies a sunken German U-boat — and with it, secrets that certain powerful men would kill to keep buried. Horse under Water is a taut, labyrinthine spy thriller in which Len Deighton's unnamed British intelligence operative is dispatched to recover a cache of forged currency, only to find himself ensnared in a web of blackmail, double-cross, and Cold War paranoia that stretches from the Lisbon underworld to the corridors of Whitehall. The second novel in Deighton's landmark spy series, published in 1963, this work cements his reputation as the antidote to the glamorised espionage of Ian Fleming. Where Bond dazzles, Deighton's protagonist navigates a world of bureaucratic obstruction, moral ambiguity, and working-class grit — rendered in the author's characteristically clipped, cinematic prose. Rich with authentic period detail and laced with dry, sardonic wit, Horse under Water argues that the real danger in espionage is never the enemy across the table, but the one sitting beside you — a proposition that lingers long after the final page.