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  • 9780141995984
  • 29 april 2021
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'The poet of the spy story' Sunday Times

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.

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Len Deighton
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  • Showdown in Albufeira, Portugal in the 1960s

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    John Le Carré (JLC)’s and Len Deighton (LD)’s early 1960’s spy novels have not aged much in human terms. They deal with (counter-) espionage against the backdrop of the Cold War.
    The unnamed hero of this novel smokes Gauloise cigarettes and is serious about good coffee. He spent part of WW II in Portugal. He and his boss Dawlish work in a secret branch of the War Office called W.O.O.C (P), located in a shabby building in Charlotte Street in London. They will reappear in later books. In this novel, the hero is sent on a diving course in preparation for a venture that might yield a lot of possibly counterfeited money from a sunken German WW II submarine, which could be invested discreetly, in a group planning to overthrow the then-ruling Salazar dictatorship in Portugal. Its principal locations are London and Albufeira in Portugal’s Algarve.
    Apart from diving 40 meters deep, the hero is trying to find out what is really at stake. And why him to find out? Claustrophobics should skip the probes of the dark interior of the massive U-Boot. Before and during the dives, the hero is tailed, his messages are intercepted, and some of the associates forced on him die violent deaths. His mission objectives are vague and remain so. What is going on? Who is behind it all? No one seems to be who he claims to be. And some local connections go back to WW II, even to the Spanish civil war. Even the horse under water is not a horse... Many questions are raised and most of the answers are given in 58 brief chapters and six Appendixes.
    Compulsive reading, lots of history and WW II anecdote with some flippancy about the UK’s higher circles. Nice to read on the beach of Albufeira or at home, longing for the beach.

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