First American Edition' stated. G. P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1966. Fair(plus)/Good dust jacket condition.
A Dandy In Aspic introduces a new name to the select group of young English novelists who have brought a new dimension and vast new popularity to the novel of international espionage. Its author, Derek Marlowe, is, however, completely original in his chosen milieu. His novel is no mere carbon copy of the works of his illustrious predecessors.
Educated at Oxford and propelled from there straight into the Ministry and a responsible desk job in Intelligence which offered him a decent maintenance with none of the unpleasantness, to say nothing of the danger, of field espionage work, Eberlin is the very picture of an average civil servant. Except.that is, that he is in truth a Russian assassin who, as the novel unrolls, finds himself faced with an almost impossible assignment-to murder himself. (From blurb on dust jacket) A really really good spy novel.
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A Cold War espionage classic,
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It's the mid-1960s and Eberlin is a 36-year-old desk-jockey in British Intelligence, a gatherer and analyzer of facts. He's also a loner who dresses very well and collects porcelain. Recently, a couple of the Ministry's operatives have been killed by an unknown Soviet agent and Eberlin is recruited by his superiors to try to learn the hitman's whereabouts. It turns out they even have a name: Krasnevin. This is a problem for Eberlin. *He's* Krasnevin, a Russian mole who has been in England since he was eighteen, and who is a very skilled assassin. Essentially, he's being told to find, identify, and kill himself. And off he goes to divided Berlin without a clue as to what he can do or how. There's a great deal in this engrossing novel (the author's first) that will remind the reader of Le Carré, especially the way the characters take on shape and color very gradually and the way in which the author requires the reader to work at following the plot. Don't think you know how it's all going to end, though, not even as you read the last chapter, because the final four pages will come up and smack you right in the face.
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