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      An Expensive Place to Die

      by Len Deighton
      Published
      Jan 1967
      Main Genre
      Espionage / Spies / CIA Espionage
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      Series
      Harry Palmer Book 5

      About This Book

      An unnamed spy is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackmail and hidden motive, where friend and enemy become indistinguishable.

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      Action Adventure Espionage / Spies / CIA Thriller

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      May 1982 Berkley ISBN13 9780425052464 ISBN10 042505246X
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      Feb 1984 Berkley ISBN13 9780425073735 ISBN10 0425073734
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      Jun 1967 Putnam ISBN13 9780399102707 ISBN10 0399102701
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