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''Deighton at his best'' Evening Standard

Steve Champion - flamboyant businessman, former leader of an anti-Nazi network in the Second World War - is a man surrounded by mysteries. There are rumours he is still in the spying business. And suspicions that his fortune may be built on something nefarious; something he''d rather stayed secret. The Department are nervous, so Champion''s oldest wartime ally is sent to the South of France to investigate. It''s time to re-open the file on yesterday''s spy, whatever the consequences.

''Tough, well-written and extremely readable'' Daily Mail

A PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL



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Tough, well-written and extremely readable. * Daily Mail *
Len Deighton is the Flaubert of the contemporary thriller writers. -- Michael Howard * Times Literary Supplement *
Splendid bluffs and lots of pleasing violence. * New Statesman *

Yesterdays Spy Penguin Modern Classics

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 30/09/2021
    ISBN13: 9780241505571, 978-0241505571
    ISBN10: 0241505577

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    ''Deighton at his best'' Evening Standard

    Steve Champion - flamboyant businessman, former leader of an anti-Nazi network in the Second World War - is a man surrounded by mysteries. There are rumours he is still in the spying business. And suspicions that his fortune may be built on something nefarious; something he''d rather stayed secret. The Department are nervous, so Champion''s oldest wartime ally is sent to the South of France to investigate. It''s time to re-open the file on yesterday''s spy, whatever the consequences.

    ''Tough, well-written and extremely readable'' Daily Mail

    A PATRICK ARMSTRONG NOVEL



    Trade Review
    Tough, well-written and extremely readable. * Daily Mail *
    Len Deighton is the Flaubert of the contemporary thriller writers. -- Michael Howard * Times Literary Supplement *
    Splendid bluffs and lots of pleasing violence. * New Statesman *

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