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ISBN: 1901982394
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Price: £5.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: A (178 x 111mm)
Extent: 288pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada, Australia & New Zealand
Pub. Date: June 1999

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

Evan Tanner, a globetrotting adventurer to put Indiana Jones in the shade, not only had his sleep centre destroyed in the Korean War but now he has been on extended vacation...in the deep freeze for over 25years!

Thawed but not shaken, Tanner has a lot of catching up to do. No sooner than he's reacquainted himself with Minna, his "adopted daughter" and now a beautiful and desirable women and mastered a crash course in Internet learning than he is recruited for another covert assignment - to destablise the government of Burma (or should that be Myanmar?) and he finds himself in Rangoon (or is that Yangon?) Mix in exotic surroundings, an exiled Russian beauty, foreign intrigue, cross and double cross, a mysterious dead man and you have an edgy and entertaining puzzle that only Lawrence Block could create.

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

"...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