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Pursuing the lonely art of thriller- writing, Michael Dove studiously resists the fashionable professions only to end up, accidentally, in the most fashionable of all spying. It all begins at 3 a.m. one day in August when a dead friend, about to meet his death for the second time, rings to bequeath his mistress to Dove.
A wealthy and beautiful woman turns up in his bath asking for favours, and Dove is plunged into an adventure more exotic and dangerous than any he could have invented at his typewriter. Philomele, the wife of a sadistic in- dustrial baron, begs for protection for herself and Project Alleluia a stolen industrial secret she intends selling to the highest bidder. Dove's fee will be a quarter of a million pounds, plus fringe benefits. The henchmen of two rival gangs pursue Dove and client to their West Country hideaway a black se- ductress with a gun in her wig, a maquis hero with dangerous feet, and a perfumed redhead assassin among them. Dove escapes train crashes, rape, knifings, shootings only to succumb, nearly, to his own so-vulnerable flesh.
Mike Storey has evolved a racy, witty and original style that exactly suits his tale. His sex-obsessed hero, so English and outraged, tough yet sus- ceptible, deserves an honoured place in modern literature's gallery of danger men.
A wealthy and beautiful woman turns up in his bath asking for favours, and Dove is plunged into an adventure more exotic and dangerous than any he could have invented at his typewriter. Philomele, the wife of a sadistic in- dustrial baron, begs for protection for herself and Project Alleluia a stolen industrial secret she intends selling to the highest bidder. Dove's fee will be a quarter of a million pounds, plus fringe benefits. The henchmen of two rival gangs pursue Dove and client to their West Country hideaway a black se- ductress with a gun in her wig, a maquis hero with dangerous feet, and a perfumed redhead assassin among them. Dove escapes train crashes, rape, knifings, shootings only to succumb, nearly, to his own so-vulnerable flesh.
Mike Storey has evolved a racy, witty and original style that exactly suits his tale. His sex-obsessed hero, so English and outraged, tough yet sus- ceptible, deserves an honoured place in modern literature's gallery of danger men.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0224006975
- ISBN 13 9780224006972
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages278
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition hardback in original Peter Graves designed dustjacket , Book has no inscriptions , no spine lean , no tears to pages , usual page toning with age , no offsetting to endpapers , no foxing , in jacket that is not price-clipped showing £1.95 net on flap , toned with age , no tears, no wear , not a remainder , not an ex-library copy. All orders are sent in quality inert removable dust jacket plastic, bubble-wrapped and in a strong box. We are a full time Independent bookseller established in 1999. Seller Inventory # 88856831
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good_. Peter Graves (illustrator). First Edition. 277pp. 8 inches. Black buckram, gilt titles, pink tops. Small indent on front, else vg. Internally, front endpaper excised, else contents about as new, no owner's marks. Pink tops. In original pictorial jacket, illustration Peter Graves, white background suffers from slight overall wear and age-spotting, few marks to back, creased at top of spine. Racy witty thriller with his mundane writer hero plunged into glamorous adventure. 430g (Espionage Fiction, Crime Fiction, Thriller) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # C11032
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