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144725595X 
Dead letter drop / 
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Publication year: 2014
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Pan Books,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781447255956 (pbk): 144725595X :
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Max Flynn, undercover agent, has the unenviable job of spying on his own side. When to kill, who to kill, whether to kill are all questions which have to be answered at great speed if he wants to stay alive. But why does an innocuous airline ticket No. 14B matter so much? Who has gone to the trouble of committing suicide? And could Flynn's beautifu.
Originally published: London: W.H. Allen, 1981.
Max Flynn, undercover agent, has the unenviable job of spying on his own side. When to kill, who to kill, whether to kill are all questions which have to be answered at great speed if he wants to stay alive. But why does an innocuous airline ticket No. 14B matter so much? Who has gone to the trouble of committing suicide? And could Flynn's beautiful companion be a spy?
Pages xv, 239 pages ; 20 cm.
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A reviewer called Peter James’s first novel, "Dead Letter Drop" (1981), a silly book and it is. The style is over-clever and is an odd mix of Americanisms and British English, the latter aspect over-stuffed with metaphors. It is quite different from the controlled style which James subsequently worked out for his successful Roy Grace series. A contrast might be drawn between Ian Rankin”s spy novel, “Watchman”, published early in a career which came to be based on detective fiction. Rankin gets the 1980s context mostly right and doesn’t rely on flashy writing and absurd turns of plot. Peter James would have been better advised to have left this novel out of print.
26/07/14
Bromleybc
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Year 2015.
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Macmillan,
Resource type: Physical
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Year 2017.
Language: English
Media class: Large print
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Clipper Large Print Books,
Resource type: Physical
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Ideal for 10-14 year olds, too silly for adults.
22/06/19
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Year 2019.
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Catalogue
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Resource type: Physical
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Year 2015.
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: Pan Books,
Resource type: Physical
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Year 2017.
Language: English
Media class: Large print
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Clipper Large Print Books,
Resource type: Physical
417 pages (large print)
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Year 2012.
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pan,
Resource type: Physical
567 p. ; 20 cm.
Interesting and gripping read
26/08/18
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Year 2014.
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pan Books,
Resource type: Physical
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Year 2014.
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pan Books,
Resource type: Physical
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Year 2014.
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pan Books,
Resource type: Physical
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Year 2014.
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Pan Books,
Resource type: Physical
503 pages ; 20 cm.
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