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      Spy Story

      by Len Deighton
      Published
      Sep 1974
      Main Genre
      Espionage / Spies / CIA Espionage
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      Series
      Harry Palmer Book 6

      About This Book

      A Russian admiral prefers defection to death . . . a beautiful blonde does custom-tailoring for cadavers ... a London computer center plays at macabre war games . . . a cocky colonel in the American Marines takes over a British intelligence caper ... and an insubordinate English spy is caught in a brutal, devious East-West conspiracy that comes to its chilling climax on the snow-swept Arctic ice.

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      Book 6
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      Suspense

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      Action Adventure Espionage / Spies / CIA Thriller

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      Jun 1975 Pocket ISBN 0671800582
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