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by Nicolas Freeling
| Paperback in Good condition. Heavy, marked crease down spine side front cover, faint crease across top right corner front cover, faint creasing in leading edge front cover, faint reading creases down spine, faint crease across bottom left corner back cover.
First published in GB 1998.
This edition published by Warner Books in 1999.
224 pages.
10.9cm x 17.8cm x 1.7cm.
Weight: 175gms.
Cover price: £5.99.
Cover illustration: The Terrace at Vernon. 1928 by Pierre Bonnard.
Nicolas Freeling - Born: 3rd March 1927, London - Died: 20th July 2003 (76), Grandfontaine - British.
Sitting on his garden terrace one French autumn evening. John Charles's reverie is shattered by a single gunshot. It is obvious he was the target, but what was the purpose? To murder, to intimidate or simply to shock?
Charles, an ageing English crime writer, is fascinated by this sudden threat to his cosmopolitan, comfortable life. After his attempts to expose his unknown assailant results in another man's shooting and a fire which destroys his house, he embarks upon a sentimental investigative journey around his beloved Europe. But when he is kidnapped on a German street. The Ruhn scene of his military posting at the end of the Second World War, becomes the setting for an unfamiliar plot in which Charles is merely a player.
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Publisher: Warner Books
ISBN: 0751520128
Condition: Good |
1999
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