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ISBN: 1901982211
Price: £4.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: A (178 x 111mm)
Extent: 180pp
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Pub. Date: August 1998

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lawrence Block is one of the most respected and bestselling names in mystery fiction and has won three Edgar and four Shamus awards. He is the author of the Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries and the Evan Tanner novels. All are published by No Exit Press. He is also the author of the outstanding Matthew Scudder series.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The seventh in the series of 8 titles featuring Evan Michael Tanner. He is 34 years old and hasn't slept a wink since a piece of shrapnel destroyed the sleep centre in his brain during the Korean War. Tanner loves lost causes and beautiful women. The FBI has a thick file on him; the CIA taps his phone and a super-secret intelligence agency wants him to be their man! Superspy, Evan Tanner's new assignment is to bring back alive the missing ruler of a new African nation...and the state treasury that's missing with him. But waiting in the heart of Africa is Sheena, a missionary's renegade daughter with an appetite for men and power...a taste that puts Tanner in the lovely arms of this deadly lady and lands him in hot water - the kind that can turn a spy into a cooked goose!

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'Lawrence Block's language - is dry and droll and elegant, like how Dashiell Hammett would write if he was still doing the Thin Man books today' - The Guardian [read the full review]

'For clean close-to-the-bone prose, the line goes from Dashiell Hammett to James M Cain to Lawrence Block. He's that good' - Martin Cruz Smith

'A master of crime fiction' - Jonathan Kellerman

'Block is one of the best ' - Washington Post

'if you are coming new to Lawrence Block.....it will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship' - Vincent Banville, Irish Times