Violent Ward

Violent Ward
Len Deighton
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 272pg
25 Nov 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9780241505540
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A hard-nosed criminal lawyer gets caught up in a murder in a classic LA thrillerIf America is a lunatic asylum, then California is the Violent Ward. Mickey Murphy is a criminal lawyer with an office in LA' s downtown low-rent district, an ex-wife who bleeds him for money and ' clients who would plead the Fifth Amendment if they could count that high' . To make matters worse, Mickey finds himself embroiled against his wishes in an elaborate and clever scam that' s going askew, and being interrogated by the LAPD about a brutal murder. With an observant eye and ear for the California ' scene' , Deighton once again uses his brilliant storytelling skills to propel an exciting and suspenseful narrative at breakneck speed to a dramatic climax in a riot-torn city.
Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London. He did his national service in the RAF, went to the Royal College of Art and designed many book jackets, including the original UK edition of Jack Kerouac' s On the Road. The enormous success of his first spy novel, The IPCRESS File (1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following decades. These varied from historical fiction (Bomber, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction (SS-GB) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War (Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly). His spy novels chart the twists and turns of Britain and the Cold War in ways which now give them a unique flavour. They preserve a world in which Europe contains many dictatorships, in which the personal can be ruined by the ideological and where the horrors of the Second World War are buried under only a very thin layer of soil. Deighton' s fascination with technology, his sense of humour and his brilliant evocation of time and place make him one of the key British espionage writers, alongside John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780241505540
Published: 25 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 272

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