Horse Under Water
By Len Deighton
4/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
The dead hand of a long-defeated Nazi Third Reich reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech in Deighton’s second novel, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of The IPCRESS File, but finds Dawlish now head of the secret British Intelligence unit, WOOC(P).
The Ipcress File was a debut sensation. Here in the second Secret File, Horse under Water, skin-diving, drug trafficking and blackmail all feature in a curious story in which the dead hand of a long-defeated Hitler-Germany reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech, and to all the neo-Nazis of today’s Europe.
The detail is frightening but unfaultable; the story as up to date as ever it was. The un-named hero of The Ipcress File the same: insolent, fallible, capricious – in other words, human. But he must draw on all his abilities, good and bad, when plunged into a story of murder, betrayal and greed every bit as murky as the waters off the coast of Portugal, where the answers lie buried.
Read more from Len Deighton
Bomber Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ipcress File Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSS-GB Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFuneral in Berlin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yesterday We Were In America: Alcock and Brown, First to Fly the Atlantic Non-Stop Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Horse Under Water
Related ebooks
The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Thirty-Nine Steps Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hot Countries: A Travel Book Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Von Ripper's Odyssey: War, Resistance, Art and Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAdventures of a Motorcycle Despatch Rider Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Set of Six Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dream Killer of Paris Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Weavers: The Bestseller of 1907 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAdventures of a Despatch Rider Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDr Ragab's Universal Language Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A French Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Wooden Horse: The Classic World War II Story of Escape Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom Pocahontas to Appomattox: A personal adventure in ten battlegrounds and several detours Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOutrageous Horizon Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Folly Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrinter's Error: Irreverent Stories of Books History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Delphi Complete Works of Arthur Quiller-Couch (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Seats of the Mighty, Complete Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Double Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wind and the Rain: A Book of Confessions Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn the Rim of the Sea: A Journey in Books Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Ball of Fire: Collected Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Around the World in 80 Novels: A global journey inspired by writers from every continent Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTreasure Island Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Scarlet Pimpernel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Charles Dickens: My Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDonovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 21 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Historical Fiction For You
Rebecca Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5East of Eden Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yellow Wife: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sold on a Monday: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Grapes of Wrath Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Rules of Magic: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Light Between Oceans: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Kitchen House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Tender Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Carnegie's Maid: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Have Always Lived in the Castle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The House of Eve Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girls in the Stilt House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Second Life of Mirielle West: A Haunting Historical Novel Perfect for Book Clubs Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lady Tan's Circle of Women: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Magic: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5That Bonesetter Woman: the new feelgood novel from the author of The Smallest Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Island of Sea Women: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Euphoria Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tinkers: 10th Anniversary Edition Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Reviews for Horse Under Water
8 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How can you not love a 60's spy novel with authoritative footnotes and informative appendices; a story that is well written with appealing characters and a sense of humor. Each of the 58 chapter titles are clues to a crossword puzzle (the solution is printed in my copy just after the copyright page), and the Spy File theme is revealed in copies of "official" documents placed in front of the first chapter. Deighton's existential hero is more relevant now in 2013 than in 1963.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The truculent secret agent is in Portugal learning to Scuba dive, and indulging in some onion peeling. The ostensible mission isn't the real mission, and that one..... Good fun.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Solid but unspectacular - in the same series as Ipcress File. Deighton's anti-hero is diverting - but it does not deliver in the same way as the Bernard Sansom novels.