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Horse Under Water (Paperback)

by Len Deighton (Author)
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  • Paperback: 255 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (2 May 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099856700
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099856702
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.9 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 699,733 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Further hardnosed exploits of Dawlish' operative, with all the authorizing apparatus - codes, footnotes and appendices, finds him in Portugal where a sunken U-boat purportedly has a cache of cash, some real, some Monopoly money, and some heroin. There are certainly touches - detail and dialogue with that strong uppercut; but the vogue for big Funerals is Just about over and this has lost a little of that smashing aplomb. Perhaps it's an occupational inevitability but you hate to see it go. Notwithstanding, and since he's better than most, this will Deightonate, or defuse, or diffuse to some of the original market. (Kirkus Reviews)

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A thriller involving skin-diving, drug-trafficking and blackmail. The dead hand of a long-defeated Hitler-Germany reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakesh and to all the neo-Nazis of modern Europe. The author has written about 25 books since his best-selling first novel, "The Ipcress File".

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, knowledgeable, hugely enjoyable, 19 Nov 2009
By Dr. H. Beentje (Kew, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Horse Under Water (Paperback)
Synopsis: an un-named agent is sent to Portugal to deal with large amounts of false banknotes coming ashore; this fake money could be used to fund groups opposing the Salazar dictatorship. But many people are interested in the source of the false notes, and this source turns out to hold more than just money...

This is the second instalment of four books about the unnamed WOOC(P) agent: Ipcress File came first, and Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain are 3rd and 4th.

I don't give five stars easily - but this is beautifully structured, clever, knowledgeable, with sardonic humour, comments on class, street-wise.... it is cool. Is it dated, seeing it was published in 1963? Oh yes, in that there are no mobile phones, Portugal is still a dictatorship, and there are three-penny pieces. No, in that the language is taut and pretty timeless, conversations feel just right and the jokes still work, as do the observations - "window display men were junking polystyrene X-mas trees, and ordering gambolling lambs."
The un-named agent (called harry Palmer in the movies) has been compared to James Bond. Utter nonsense - he is lower class, a lot smarter, and the writing is incomparibly better than that of Fleming. The writing is clever, very clever, and much is left unsaid, just inferred. The book is also very good on power structures and power games, hidden politics, illegal gold dies, wartime meteorology and secretaries - and much else. If anybody is writing thrillers in 2009 as good as Deighton did in '63, tell me; because I have not found them, yet.
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