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      Tremor of Intent

      by Anthony Burgess
      Published
      Jul 1972
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      A brilliantly funny spy novel, this morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad features sex, gluttony, violence, and treachery. From the author of the ground-breaking A Clockwork Orange.

      Denis Hillier is an aging British agent based in Yugoslavia. His old school friend Roper has defected to the USSR to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must bring Roper back to England or risk losing his fat retirement bonus. As thoughtful as it is funny, this morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad features sex, gluttony, violence, treachery, and religion. Anthony Burgess's cast of astonishing characters includes Roper's German prostitute wife; Miss Devi and her Tamil love treatise; and the large Mr. Theodorescu, international secret monger and lascivious gourmand. A rare combination of the deadly serious and the absurd, the lofty and the lusty, Tremor of Intent will hold you in its thrall.

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      First Edition Jul 1972 Ballantine ISBN13 9780345227669 ISBN10 0345227662
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      Jul 2004 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN13 9780393004168 ISBN10 0393004163
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      Mar 2013 Profile Books Ltd ISBN13 9781846689208 ISBN10 1846689201
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      Aug 2013 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN13 9780393346398 ISBN10 0393346390
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      Jun 2026 Galileo Publishers ISBN13 9781915530707 ISBN10 1915530709
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      Apr 1966 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN13 9780393085396 ISBN10 0393085392
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      Aug 2013 Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. ISBN13 9780393346749 ISBN10 0393346749
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      Aug 2013 Serpent's Tail (UK) ISBN13 9781847658944 ISBN10 1847658946
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      Aug 2013 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN10 B00AV7JVA2
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