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A01=Edward Wilson
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Author_Edward Wilson
Category1=Fiction
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COP=United Kingdom
Discount=15
Format=BC
Format_Paperback
HMM=216
IMPN=Arcadia Books
ISBN13=9781906413996
Language_English
PA=Reprinting
PD=20111112
POP=London
Price_€10 to €20
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PUB=Arcadia Books
SMM=20
SN=Catesby Series
Subject=Modern & Contemporary Fiction
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The Midnight Swimmer

Paperback | English

By (author): Edward Wilson

October, 1962. If the Cuban gamble goes wrong and war breaks out, Britain will no longer exist. London dispatches a secret envoy to defuse the confrontation. Spawned in the bleak poverty of an East Anglian fishing port, Catesby is a spy with a big anti-establishment chip on his shoulder. He loves his country, but despises the class who run it. Loathed by the Americans and trusted by the Russians, Catesby is sent to Havana and Washington to make clandestine contacts. London has authorised Catesby to offer Moscow a secret deal to break the Cuban Missile Crisis deadlock. But before that can happen, Catesby meets the Midnight Swimmer who has a chilling message for Washington. A triangle of love and death that began in Berlin ends in Cuba. On one corner is a war disabled KGB general, on another corner is his unfulfilled wife... This sophisticated novel is full of twists and turns that merge historical fact with fiction. Sleaze and high politics literally share the same beds. A white-knuckle superpower standoff is played out against a backdrop of honey trap blackmail, Mafia contracts, assassinations and Vatican scandal. The real blurs into the surreal as Che''s car surfs on the Havana seafront and Fidel takes the pitcher''s mound against a professional baseball team. See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 305g
  • Dimensions: 136 x 216 x 20mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Nov 2011
  • Publisher: Arcadia Books
  • Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781906413996
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