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ISBN: 1874061548
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Price: £4.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: A (178 x 111mm)
Extent: 288pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada, Australia & New Zealand
Pub. Date: April 1996

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 first in a new series of Lawrence Block 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!

He never intended to be a spy...anymore than he planned to lead a revolution in Macedonia or land up in a Turkish jail. But those kinds of things just seemed to happen when Tanner was around - particularly when there were 573 pounds of pure gold waiting to be found and a beautiful blonde counting on him to gain freedom for her native land....

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..." - Judith Freeman, 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