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David, as he's currently known, was a member of an elitecorps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those daysare long gone, and for almost a decade he has been out of the rat race andworking as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakenshim: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogue-and they needDavid to stop him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played outacross the great board that is the American landscape and through the diners andmotels that dot the terrain like green plastic houses on a Monopoly board.In this haunting and visceral yarn, James Sallisinvestigates the cynical, violent, sophisticated world of modern espionage withauthority and originality.
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"Sallis investigates the cynical, violent, sophisticated world of modern espionage with authority and originality. His adult view of spies and their world has all the delicious ambiguous atmosphere, the complexity of plot and character we expect from Graham Greene or John le Carre - and it goes like a bullet train. Sallis is a superb writer and this is his best novel yet!" -- Michael Moorcock
"Vivid and strange, with prose like blown glass, Death Will Have Your Eyes is somehow equal parts Borges and Trevanian's Shibumi. I was enthralled." -- Jonathan Lethem
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"Vivid and strange, with prose like blown glass, Death Will Have Your Eyes is somehow equal parts Borges and Trevanian's Shibumi. I was enthralled." -- Jonathan Lethem
David (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone and for nine years he has been an ordinary, upstanding citizen...Until, that is, a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him. The only other known survivor of that elite corps has gone rogue. They need David to stop him.
What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the board that is the American landscape. Haunting, visceral, and utterly magnificent, Death Will Have Your Eyes is a novel about spying in the way that All The King's Men is a novel about politics - ultimately, its agents spy into that enigma known as the human condition.
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- PublisherNo Exit Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1874061947
- ISBN 13 9781874061946
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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Book Description hardcover. 1st edition. Harpenden. 1997. No Exit Press. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Cloth. No Dustjacket As Issued. 1874061947. 184 pages. hardcover. Cover photograph - Robert Harding Picture Library. Signed by the Author. keywords: Mystery Spies Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER - David (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone and for almost a decade he has been out of the rat race and working as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogue. They need David to stop him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the great board that is the American landscape, through the diners and motels that dot the terrain like green plastic houses on a Monopoly board. inventory #26534 Very Good in Cloth. No Dustjacket As Issued. Seller Inventory # z26534
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