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Synopsis
On the Agean island where Pascali the spy is filing his last report to his Turkish paymasters, the old Europe can already be heard dropping apart. Why Pascali, exposed and in deadly danger, should choose this moment to become involved with a mysterious Englishman is part of this, his testament.
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Barry Unsworth (1930-2012), who won the Booker Prize for Sacred Hunger, was a Booker Prize finalist for Morality Play and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for The Ruby in Her Navel.
Review
“A compelling portrait of a schemer whose shabby amorality scarcely ensures his survival in a world where treachery is the rule.”
- Boston Sunday Globe
“Darkly ironic. . . . Offers an almost Conradian richness.”
- The New Yorker
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- PublisherM. Joseph
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0718118545
- ISBN 13 9780718118549
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages188
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