Horse Under Water.

DEIGHTON, Len.

$50.00

Item Number: 146604

London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.

First edition of Deighton’s second spy novel. Octavo, original red cloth, pictorial endpapers featuring crossword puzzles and clues, a running motif of Deighton’s novels. Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Raymond Hawkey.

Following Secret File No. 1 'The Ipcress File,' Deighton's 'Horse Under Water' features the nameless spy from the first book as he encounters skin-diving, drug-trafficking, and blackmail in a plot to institute a Neo-Nazi puppet government in England.