Horse Under Water
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The dead hand of a long-defeated Nazi Third Reich reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech in Deighton’s second novel, featuring the same anonymous narrator and milieu of The IPCRESS File, but finds Dawlish now head of the secret British Intelligence unit, WOOC(P).The Ipcress File was a debut sensation. Here in the second Secret File, Horse under Water, skin-diving, drug trafficking and blackmail all feature in a curious story in which the dead hand of a long-defeated Hitler-Germany reaches out to Portugal, London and Marrakech, and to all the neo-Nazis of today's Europe.The detail is frightening but unfaultable; the story as up to date as ever it was. The un-named hero of The Ipcress File the same: insolent, fallible, capricious – in other words, human. But he must draw on all his abilities, good and bad, when plunged into a story of murder, betrayal and greed every bit as murky as the waters off the coast of Portugal, where the answers lie buried.
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Len Deighton. Horse Under Water
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LEN DEIGHTON. Horse Under Water
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Introduction
Solution
1 Sweet talk
2 Old solution
3 Undersea need
4 Man with a tail
5 No toy
6 Ugly rock
7 Short talk
8 I hit it
9 I sit on it
10 Sort of boat
11 Help
12 Sort of man
13 More to do
14 Portuguese O.K
15 Reaction in the market
16 One too many
17 Da Cunha lays it down
18 Sad song
19 Never say this
20 Enemy
21 Are the wages of this, that?
22 Charly raises its head
23 In the same one
24 Threads of a story
25 Ready to jump?
26 The point of a pen
27 Gain this or lose it
28 The boat gets one
29 Entreaty
30 Grave trouble
31 From a friend
32 For this game
33 Jean when I find her
34 Awakening
35 At the door
36 Sort of Secrets
37 Two readings
38 Chin wag
39 Inside a cabinet
40 H without an H
41 It’s moving
42 Hidden within treason
43 Friday on a Portuguese calendar
44 W.H.O. is part of this not me
45 Man and boy are this
46 Little else to give
47 Relinquish
48 Ivor Butcher entertains
49 And again
50 One named OSTRA has no number
51 Where I shine
52 I see better with this
53 Long arm
54 Ossie moves like double this
55 In me for a change
56 Deep signal
57 Lost letter in the mail
58 To put it together hastily
Last Word
APPENDIXES. 1. Telephone-tapping
2. Austin Butterworth (Ossie)
3. Operation Bernhard
4. Olterra
5. Kurier
6. Lt Peterson, B.T., Court martial
Footnotes. 2 Old solution
4 Man with a tail
5 No toy
8 I hit it
10 Sort of boat
13 More to do
18 Sad song
19 Never say this
20 Enemy
21 Are the wages of this, that?
24 Threads of a story
27 Gain this or lose it
31 From a friend
36 Sort of Secrets
42 Hidden within treason
44 W.H.O. is part of this not me
45 Man and boy are this
46 Little else to give
47 Relinquish
50 One named OSTRA has no number
52 I see better with this
If you enjoyed Horse Under Water, check out these other great Len Deighton titles
About the Author
By Len Deighton
About the Publisher
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In creating cover designs for the new publication of Len Deighton’s quartet of spy novels, I came up with the metaphor of the chess game as it relates to the spy game. Three enamel U-boat sub-mariners’ cap badges became pawns on the chessboard.
A constant feature of Deighton’s nameless protagonist’s Charlotte Street WOOC(P) office was the ubiquitous pack of Gauloises cigarettes and the ever-present tin of Nescafé. (This very same street was used as the location for the HQ of the nest of spies in Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent.) The Swiss had invented instant coffee prior to World War II, but it only became available in the UK in the 1950s, so when freeze-dried soluble grains were introduced a while later they became the beverage of choice for the Swinging London set. My search for a UK Nescafé tin of that period ended when I located one in far-off Australia!
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42. Hidden within treason
43. Friday on a Portuguese calendar
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