The Killer Mine - Softcover
From the author of THE WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE, a thriller about an army deserter. A man is smuggled back into Britain, many years after he went AWOL. He walks straight into a mining disaster which triggers off a pitiful catalogue of madness and grief that involves his family legacy of neurotic insanity.
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Smuggled illegally into his native land after many years' absence, army deserter Jim Pryce finds himself deposited on a Cornish beach. Little does he suspect, setting out along the road to Penzance, that he is about to walk straight into a mine disaster, and into a story involving his own history.
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- PublisherFontana Press
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0006165559
- ISBN 13 9780006165552
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages222
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