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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.

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"Tremor of Intent has more wit and comic invention than the books which it so boisterously ridicules…The talent is as unsettling as it is prodigious." -- New Republic
"A gleaming novel of ideas…brazenly clever. He is possessed by a black sense of humor…Burgess is nothing if not outrageous." -- Webster Schott - New York Times Book Review
"One of my favorite Burgess books. I think he set out to write a satire of a spy novel but he made the story, the writing, the characters, so good that it became an amusing spy novel." -- Alan Furst
"[The] spy novel to end all spy novels." -- Francis Brown, former editor of the New York Times Book Review

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 27/08/2013
      ISBN13: 9780393346398, 978-0393346398
      ISBN10: 0393346390

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "Tremor of Intent has more wit and comic invention than the books which it so boisterously ridicules…The talent is as unsettling as it is prodigious." -- New Republic
      "A gleaming novel of ideas…brazenly clever. He is possessed by a black sense of humor…Burgess is nothing if not outrageous." -- Webster Schott - New York Times Book Review
      "One of my favorite Burgess books. I think he set out to write a satire of a spy novel but he made the story, the writing, the characters, so good that it became an amusing spy novel." -- Alan Furst
      "[The] spy novel to end all spy novels." -- Francis Brown, former editor of the New York Times Book Review

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