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Fred Pohl, multiple winner of science-fiction's top awards, presents a breathtaking romp through the energy-poor world of the 2020s - a gripping chase-intrigue novel with a highly unlikely stand-in for James Bond.
One day, the Reverend Hornswell Hake had nothing worse to contend with than the customary power shortages and his routine pastoral chores, such as counseling the vivacious Alys Brant - and her husbands and wife. At nearly forty, his life was placid, almost humdrum.
The very next day, Horny Hake was first enlisted as an unwilling agent of the Team - secret successor to the long-discredited CIA - and then courted by an anti-Team underground group. In practically no time at all, Horny and Alys were touring Europe on a mission about which he knew zip, except that it was a new move in the Cool War, the worldwide campaign of sabotage that had replaced actual combat.
For the team and its opponents, though, the Cool War could be as perilous as any hot one, as Horny Hake discovered when he came up against
*Leota, lovely leader of the underground cabal, dedicated to destroying the Team;
*Yosper, the Bible-thumping, foul-mouthed nonogenarian killer;
*The Reddi twins, professional terrorists who turned up in the oddest places at the worst times and always managed to make Horny's life miserable;
*And Pegleg, master of such lethal toys as the Bulgarian Brolly and the Peruvian Pen.
Picaresque and fast-moving, THE COOL WAR is also a deeply ironic, often hilarious, yet thought-provoking look at where we could be, some forty years from now.
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THE COOL WAR [First UK Edition]
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Victor Gollancz, London, 1981
ISBN 10: 0575029420
ISBN 13: 9780575029422
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Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine, clean and tight copy in a fine jacket/brodart covered. First Edition. A very nice copy. No bumped corners to book. No tears, no chips to jacket. No signatures. Jacket is not priced clipped. Essentially, book is in like new and unread condition. Seller Inventory # 000413C
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THE COOL WAR [Signed Review Copy]
Published by
Victor Gollancz, London, 1981
ISBN 10: 0575029420
ISBN 13: 9780575029422
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Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A near fine, clean and tight copy in a fine jacket/brodart covered. First Edition. Advance review copy with slip laid in. Signed by Frederik Pohl. Two corners lightly bumped. Spine tips smooth and round. No tears, no chips to jacket. Jacket is not priced clipped. Seller Inventory # 003571D
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The Cool War by Frederik Pohl (First UK Edition) Gollancz File Copy
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Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1981
ISBN 10: 0575029420
ISBN 13: 9780575029422
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The Cool War by Frederik Pohl (First UK Edition) Gollancz File Copy A tight bright unread copy with sharp corners. A sharp bright dust jacket. Not price-clipped. First UK Edition. Publisher's File Copy. Most of these Gollancz archive copies are ink-stamped "File Copy" or "Archive Copy" on the front endpaper, title page, and/or dust jacket. There may be a notation, by the publisher, in pencil or pen to the front endpaper and jacket back cover. BOOK. Seller Inventory # HCX9072-1