An Expensive Place to Die - Softcover

Deighton, Len

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586026711 ISBN 13: 9780586026717

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1995

Synopsis

The story centres on a CIA operation to leak classified data on nuclear fall-out to the Chinese Embassy in Paris.

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From the Back Cover:

A 'clinic' on Paris's Avenue Foch designed to cater lavishly for multiple perversions, staffed by a group of sexually and intellectually high-powered girls and equipped with devices ranging from an Iron Maiden to psychedelic truth-drugs – that's the set-up operated by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt.

Naturally, it has a hidden purpose: to compile dossiers of tape and film on influential political clients from East and West. Into this twilight world of decadence and hidden motives come the agents of four world powers. Are they after Datt's pornographic blackmail dossiers? Or is their purpose altogether more deadly than a trip to the blue movies...?

'The poet of the spy story'
SUNDAY TIMES

'For sheer readability he has no peer'
THE STANDARD

'A first-rate storyteller who rarely if ever strikes a false note'
DAILY MAIL

About the Author:

Born in London, he served in the RAF before graduating from the Royal College of Art (which recently elected him a Senior Fellow). While in New York City working as a magazine illustrator he began writing his first novel, ‘The Ipcress File’, which was published in 1962. He is now the author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction. At present living in Europe, he has, over the years, lived with his family in ten different countries from Austria to Portugal.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0586026711
• ISBN 13: 9780586026717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256