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Product Description Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with the man who led the old anti-Nazi Guernica network. Time to re-open the master file on yesterday’s spy…Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with the man who led the old anti-Nazi Guernica network. Time to re-open the master file on yesterday’s spy…This new reissue includes a foreword from the cover designer, Oscar-winning filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman, and a brand new introduction by Len Deighton, which offers a fascinating insight into the writing of the story. Review ‘Deighton at his best’Evening Standard‘Splendid bluffs and lots of pleasing violence’New Statesman‘Tough, well-written and extremely readable’Daily Mail‘Tremendous… a must read’Daily Mirror‘The excitement is exactly rationed, and all the characters beautifully outlined… far better than the best work of almost anyone else’Daily Telegraph About the Author Born in London, he served in the RAF before graduating from the Royal College of Art (which recently elected him a Senior Fellow). While in New York City working as a magazine illustrator he began writing his first novel, ‘The Ipcress File’, which was published in 1962. He is now the author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction. At present living in Europe, he has, over the years, lived with his family in ten different countries from Austria to Portugal.