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''For sheer readability he has no peer'' Evening Standard

Paris in the 1960''s caters for every taste, and nowhere more than at the private ''clinic'' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch, which supplies psychedelic drugs and sexual favours to the city''s elite - all the while secretly filming guests in order to blackmail them. Into this decadent underworld steps a bespectacled British spy. Sent on what seems like a simple mission, he soon finds himself playing a game where the rules are unknown - and even victory could be fatal.

''Take this excellent thriller at a single gulp'' Sunday Times

A PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL



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A first-rate storyteller who rarely if ever strikes a false note. * Daily Mail *
Take this excellent thriller at a single gulp. * Sunday Times *
For sheer readability he has no peer. * Evening Standard *
Len Deighton is the Flaubert of the contemporary thriller writers. -- Michael Howard * Times Literary Supplement *

An Expensive Place to Die

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 30/09/2021
    ISBN13: 9780241505342, 978-0241505342
    ISBN10: 0241505348

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    ''For sheer readability he has no peer'' Evening Standard

    Paris in the 1960''s caters for every taste, and nowhere more than at the private ''clinic'' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch, which supplies psychedelic drugs and sexual favours to the city''s elite - all the while secretly filming guests in order to blackmail them. Into this decadent underworld steps a bespectacled British spy. Sent on what seems like a simple mission, he soon finds himself playing a game where the rules are unknown - and even victory could be fatal.

    ''Take this excellent thriller at a single gulp'' Sunday Times

    A PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL



    Trade Review
    A first-rate storyteller who rarely if ever strikes a false note. * Daily Mail *
    Take this excellent thriller at a single gulp. * Sunday Times *
    For sheer readability he has no peer. * Evening Standard *
    Len Deighton is the Flaubert of the contemporary thriller writers. -- Michael Howard * Times Literary Supplement *

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