Name: City of Gold von Len Deighton
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City of Gold Len Deighton

'A superb example of Deighton's craft' Robert Harris

January 1942. Rommel's troops are at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. A spy has been leaking British secrets to the German commander, and Captain Albert Cutler has been sent to find them amongst the city's teeming streets and bazaars, before it is too late. But Cutler is not quite what he seems, and Cairo is a city of fool's gold, where nothing can be taken at face value.

'The pace of the story is compulsive ... it is a real pleasure to be swallowed up in Deighton's descriptions of wartime Cairo' Daily Telegraph
'A novel reminiscent in spirit to Casablanca. Play it again, Len' Kirkus Reviews

City of Gold Bewertungen

A superb example of Deighton's craft. -- Robert Harris * Sunday Times *
The pace of the story is compulsive ... it is a real pleasure to be swallowed up in Deighton's description of wartime Cairo. * Daily Telegraph *
The hallmarks of a Deighton novel are an intricate plot, an easy grasp of detail and a total mastery of storytelling technique. * Sunday Times *
A master of fictional espionage. * Daily Mail *

Über Len Deighton

Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London. He did his national service in the RAF, went to the Royal College of Art and designed many book jackets, including the original UK edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The enormous success of his first spy novel, The IPCRESS File (1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following decades. These varied from historical fiction (Bomber, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction (SS-GB) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War (Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly).

His spy novels chart the twists and turns of Britain and the Cold War in ways which now give them a unique flavour. They preserve a world in which Europe contains many dictatorships, in which the personal can be ruined by the ideological and where the horrors of the Second World War are buried under only a very thin layer of soil. Deighton's fascination with technology, his sense of humour and his brilliant evocation of time and place make him one of the key British espionage writers, alongside John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.

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Sku

GOR012098548

ISBN 13

9780241505311

ISBN 10

0241505313

Titel

City of Gold Len Deighton

Autor

Len Deighton

Serien

Penguin Modern Classics

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Penguin Books Ltd

Datum

2021-11-25

Anzahl der Seiten

352

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