LE CARRé, JOHN

The Little Drummer Girl

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1983. Later Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0340328479. DJ and boards show light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 154 X 241 X 39 millimeters; 430 pages; "On holiday in Mykonos, Charlie wants only sunny days and a brief escape from England’s bourgeois dreariness. Then a handsome stranger lures the aspiring actress away from her pals—but his intentions are far from romantic. Joseph is an Israeli intelligence officer, and Charlie has been wooed to flush out the leader of a Palestinian terrorist group responsible for a string of deadly bombings. Still uncertain of her own allegiances, she debuts in the role of a lifetime as a double agent in the “theatre of the real.”". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 20758

Catalogue: Fiction::Thriller

Keywords: 0340328479 Fiction::Mystery

MURPHY, CHRISTOPHER

Jericho Rumble

London: Secker & Warburg, 1982. 1st UK. Hardcover. ISBN: 0436296861. Light wear to book and dustjacket, yellowing of pages comon to British publications of this era ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; "In the mid-'70s,Robert Halliday, ex-Special Forces for Her Majesty's Government, occasional mercenary and freelance journalist, is hired by Jessica Tovey to help spring her father from the jail of a tin-pot African dictator. Jawota Garube is the capricious, often-brutal and semiliterate leader of Ghat, a neighbor of Idi Amin's Uganda. After being menaced by mysterious Africans in England and France, the independent and resourceful Halliday hits on an ingenious scheme. He assembles a machine that transmits low-frequency "infra-sounds" that can cause effects from nausea to highly localized earthquakes. How Halliday uses this physiological compulsion on Garube forms the violent climax of the book. The plot is clever and the action fast and usually bloody. ". Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 18471

Catalogue: Fiction::Thriller

Keywords: 0436296861 Uganda Thriller FICTION Fiction::Mystery

SLADE, MICHAEL

Death's Door

Toronto, ON: Viking Penguin, 2001. First Canadian Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670911658. Signed by All Authors; Only light wear. ; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. Signed by both authors on title page 'Welcome to (title) Enter if you dare!' At the bottom is 'Slade/ Jay & Rebecca' - each writes own name. Also dated December 22th 2001. Inscribed at top To D** ; Special X; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 376 pages; Jay Clarke and his daughter Rebecca have teamed up as Michael Slade to present Robert DeClercq in another Special X (RCMP) thriller set in Vancouver. "In Death's Door the Slade team again focuses on Vancouver's Special X squad, headed by Chief Superintendent Robert DeClercq and colleague Zinc Chandler. Their adversaries are a motley crew that includes renegade plastic surgeons Dr. David Denning and Ryland Fletcher, porn king Wolfe Capp, the aptly named Undertaker, and depraved mastermind Mephisto. Potential victims include forensic pathologist Gill Macbeth, whose desire for cosmetic surgery will prove fatal unless Special X wins a desperate race against time.". Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 14587

Catalogue: Fiction::Thriller::Series

Keywords: 0670911658 RCMP Vancouver Gulf Islands Signed Special X Fiction::Mystery

SLADE, MICHAEL

Ghoul

New York: Beech Tree Books/William Morrow, 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0688075509. Light wear & scuffing, bumped top of spine ; A bright solid, book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Special X; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 415 pages; This is the second book by the trilogy of authors (lawyer Jay Clarke et al). Zinc Chandler of the Special X Branch of the RCMP links up with a British investigator to solve some gruesome murders. Definitely not for the faint of heart.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 17368

Catalogue: Fiction::Thriller::Series

Keywords: 0688075509 Mounties Special X Zinc Chandler declerq RCMP Fiction::Horror

SLADE, MICHAEL

Hangman

Toronto, ON: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 2000. First Canadian Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 067089480X. Special X; 379 pages; DJ in mylar. DJ has very light scuff marks, slight edge wear. Another book featuring Zinc Chandler in the Special X mystery series from the Vancouver lawyer, Jay Clarke and his daughter Rebecca. "The first victim was found in Seattle. The second in Vancouver-just the first two in a grisly puzzle that's turning the child's game of hangman into a nightmare of escalating horror...." Definitely not for the squeamish.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 14471

Catalogue: Fiction::Thriller::Series

Keywords: 067089480X Fiction Thrillers Mystery Vancouver Horror Special X Fiction::Canadian Fiction::Mystery