Horse Under Water

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Was the letter from "Henry" (Smith) to his German friend (in the prologue to "Horse" based on an actual example? Da Cunha turns out to be ex-German Navy officer, using the Weiss List to blackmail eminent Brits, and using the proceeds to fund European Fascist movements. Poor box office from Billion Dollar Brain the movie and not poor sales from Horse Under Water the book probably killed this project.

He is at pains to show how detached and clinical his protagonist is and, since it is the detached clinical protagonist telling the story, the narrative itself comes over as clinical and detached.The 90s films were never going to be on a par with the originals (since they weren't based on Deighton and had budget restrictions), though it was a pleasure to see Palmer again. In many places the sentences don’t follow as a train of thought but jump from one facet to another, like an attempt to see all the angles of a situation at the same moment.

The subs with VLW receivers generally tow an antenna behind them which is arranged to float just below the surface. Cloth "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.We meet crooks, gangsters, spies, émigrés, soldiers, detectives, nurses, deserters and heroes as they get caught up in gun smuggling, black marketeering and much more, in trying to track down the elusive ‘Rommel spy’ and, oh yes, fighting the Germans.

The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff. The un-named hero of The Ipcress File the same: insolent, fallible, capricious - in other words, human.So there we have it, at last I’ve convinced myself that those cunning Deutsch engineers could have created a submersible weather buoy that would still be going ‘more than a decade’ later. Worth remembering that, before his writing career took off, Deighton studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art, won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, worked as an illustrator in New York and as an art director in an advertising agency.