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GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by the creator of the BBC spy drama "Spooks" - a story of spycraft gone very wrong. Two operatives who become friends when they are accidentally assigned to the same undercover operation, both wanting to leave the Agency, are transformed into lethal enemies when they receive their final mission before retiring from the Agency - the assassination of each other. Alternating between trusting and distrusting each other, they embark on a chase across Europe and North America as they attempt to discover why their bosses want them dead. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-525947949.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 91180More details Price: $28.50 -
THE DAVIDIAN REPORT.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York & Boston: Duell, Sloan & Pearce / Little, Brown, (1952) dj. Hardcover - An espionage thriller this Edgar Award-winning writer, featuring Steve Wintress, as one of several people, ranging from Soviet agents to the FBI, chasing after the Davidian Report, smuggled out of Berlin and now for sale to the highest bidder. 213 pp.
Condition: Very good in gray boards in a fair only dust jacket. (some toning to the pages, edgewear and rubbing to the dust jacket.
Book ID: 80999More details Price: $12.50 -
KINGDOM OF SHADOWS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - True first (preceding the US edition) of this espionage novel set in Paris in 1938, as Europe edges its way to war, by this master of the historical spy novel. INSCRIBED on the title page. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-57506837X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77400More details Price: $50.00 -
CAPTAIN WUNDER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - Espionage novel set in the early 1900s, in the years leading up to the Great War, Berlin, London, Dublin and Lake Como. Captain Wunder is the stage name for Captain Richard Gaudeans - a man who was once cashiered out of a British regiment in Africa and now works as a Houdini-style escape artist in a sleazy Berlin circus-theater. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-670203556.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name on front pastedown)
Book ID: 76552More details Price: $17.50 -
AZREAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in his mythologically titled espionage series featuring Clifford Driscoll (aka Bellman aka Trotter). 216 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-2038.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (a tight copy, but with a crease to the lower corner of the textblock, due to a publishing flaw) .
Book ID: 70542More details Price: $15.00 -
BLOOD OF VICTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Espionage novel set during the early years of World War II, as the British Secret Service attempts to block the exportation of oil from Roumania to Germany. The title refers to a 1918 speech by a French senator who said, "Oil, the blood of the earth, has become, in time of war, the blood of victory." SIGNED on the title page. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-375-505741.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69537More details Price: $30.00 -
BLOOD OF VICTORY.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Random House, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Espionage novel set during the early years of World War II, as the British Secret Service attempts to block the exportation of oil from Roumania to Germany. The title refers to a 1918 speech by a French senator who said, "Oil, the blood of the earth, has become, in time of war, the blood of victory." 237 pp. ISBN: 0-375-505741.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65592More details Price: $14.50 -
BLOOD OF VICTORY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Espionage novel set during the early years of World War II, as the British Secret Service attempts to block the exportation of oil from Roumania to Germany. The title refers to a 1918 speech by a French senator who said, "Oil, the blood of the earth, has become, in time of war, the blood of victory." 237 pp. ISBN: 0-375-505741.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64569More details Price: $17.50 -
SPIES OF THE BALKANS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Espionage novel set in nothern Greece in 1940, at the beginning of World War II, by this master of the historical spy novel. 268 pp. ISBN: 978-1400066032.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63838More details Price: $17.50 -
KINGDOM OF SHADOWS.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Random House, (2000.) dj. Hardcover - Espionage novel set in Paris in 1938, as Europe edges its way to war, by this master of the historical spy novel. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award. Double page map. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-375-503374.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61975More details Price: $15.00 -
THE SECRET PILGRIM.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover - Novel set in the post-cold war changing world of espionage. 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4165-94884.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (sunning to spine of dj and a small scrape).
Book ID: 60131More details Price: $14.50 -
THE SPIES OF WARSAW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Espionage novel set in Poland in 1937 by this master of the historical spy novel. 266 pp. ISBN: 1400066025.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58919More details Price: $18.00 -
THE SPIES OF WARSAW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Espionage novel set in Poland in 1937 by this master of the historical spy novel. SIGNED on the title page. 266 pp. ISBN: 1400066025.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58918More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SPIES OF WARSAW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Espionage novel set in Poland in 1937 by this master of the historical spy novel. SIGNED on the title page. 266 pp. ISBN: 1400066025.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (remainder dot, address sticker)
Book ID: 54165More details Price: $25.00 -
THE FOURTH PROTOCOL.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An espionage thriller which starts out with a simple jewel robbery, but some becomes a train of plots and counterplots, of mistakes and miscalculations. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-670-32637-2.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 47026More details Price: $18.00 -
DEATH OF A SAHIB.
Edition: First printing.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of international intrigue and espionage set in India, by this master of the genre. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-340496606.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (usual light toning to the pages, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 42113More details Price: $35.00 -
OPERATION SHYLOCK: A Confession.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993.). A novel which purports to be an account of how the writer became involved with Israel's intelligence gathering agency - the Mossad - in the 1980's - based on his notebook entries at the time. 399 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in wrappers.
Book ID: 36096More details Price: $11.00