brian harry freemantle (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 313 pages. Octavo (8 1/2 x5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Eddie Franks--a smart, savvy hotel tycoon--never overcame his childhood rivalry with Nicky Scargo, even after he married Nicky's sister. Then Nicky persuades Eddie to accept private financing from friends of the family, and Eddie becomes caught up in a twisted web of money laundering, Mob activities, and murder! Condition: Light rubbing to spine ends with gently bumped corners else a near fine copy in a fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 435 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black with silver lettering in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Charlie Muffin, most devious of spies, has lived through the Cold War, outlasted the Soviet Union, circumvented the most lethal schemes of the late KGB, and survived a love affair with former KGB agent Natalia Fedova. Is it time to put him out to pasture? Director General Peter Miller, Charlie's new director, thinks so and turns Charlie into a schoolmaster, a teacher of spies. All seems set for Charlie in his new role until his apprentice, John Gower, is sent to Beijing to extract a British agent. Gower's mission quickly becomes a failure as he is imprisoned within days of his arrival, and Miller reluctantly dispatches Charlie to rescue Gower before he reveals all in the face of certain torture. But in espionage, the truth is elusive, dangerous, and never what you expect, and as Charlie gets more deeply involved he begins to wonder who is really pulling the strings now that the Cold War is over. Condition: A near fine copy in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 278 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed. First edition. Brian Freemantle (The Blind Run has merged the good humor of a Lawrence Block thriller, the seriousness of a le Carre spy novel and the slam-bang adventure of a popular espionage caper in this newest work about British secret agent Charlie Muffin. Muffin has his detractors in London HQ he dresses sloppily and his loose procedures offend the prigs with bureaucratic power, but his director, knowing a good man, gives him an assignment anyway: to go to Tokyo and share with the Americans in the reception of KGB defectors Yuri and Irene Kozlov. The CIA men are unhappy that the Soviets have managed to divide the defection between two countries and hope to swipe both husband and wife for themselves. Charlie wouldn't mind grabbing both agents either. And the Kozlovs, under the suspicious eye of their station chief, have certain plans neither ally suspects. When the moves commence, the operation becomes intensely interesting, and at each moment in this thriller the future is exciting and unpredictable. Condition: Inscribed on half title. Corners bumped. Jacket light edge wear else a better than very good copy in a near fine jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).