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Horse Under Water

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Horse Under Water

By: Len Deighton
Narrated by: James Lailey
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A sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War - until now. Inside its rusting hull, among the corpses of top-rank Nazis, lie secrets people will kill to obtain. The sequel to Len Deighton's game-changing debut The IPCRESS File, Horse Under Water sees its nameless, laconic narrator sent from fogbound London to the Algarve, where he must dive through layers of deceit in a place rotten with betrayals.

'The poet of the spy story' Sunday Times

© Len Deighton 1963 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

 Action & Adventure Espionage Historical Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense U-Boat Submarine

Critic Reviews

Lively, exciting, ingenious.
Len Deighton's spy novels are so good they make me sad the Cold War is over. (Malcolm Gladwell)
What raises Deighton's genre to art is not only his absorbing characters but his metaphoric grace, droll wit, command of technical detail, and sure sense of place. (Andy Solomon)
Deighton's fiction has stood the test of time. His habitually acerbic narrative voice still has much to say to contemporary readers ... Now a fresh generation have the chance to sample Deighton's wares as Penguin republishes many of his books. (Vanessa Thorpe)
Mr Deighton is really something special.
For sheer readability he has no peer.
Fleming made spy fiction globally popular, but it took Deighton in the Sixties to make it hip.

With this, his second bestseller in as many years, Len Deighton really hit his stride. Multiple deceits defy a full plot summary. Suffice to say that with a succession of startling revelations linked by sharp dialogue, the book effortlessly acquires classic status.

(Barry Turner)
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