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      An Expensive Place to Die

      by Len Deighton
      Published
      Jan 1967
      Main Genre
      Espionage / Spies / CIA Espionage
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      Series
      Harry Palmer Book 5

      About This Book

      An unnamed spy is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackmail and hidden motive, where friend and enemy become indistinguishable.

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      Book 5
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      Suspense

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      Action Adventure Espionage / Spies / CIA Thriller

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