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An unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File - is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor, but soon finds himself sucked into a twilight world of sex, blackmail and hidden motive, where friend and enemy become indistinguishable.
A ‘clinic’ on Paris’s Avenue Foch designed to cater lavishly for multiple perversions, staffed by a group of sexually and intellectually high-powered girls and equipped with devices ranging from an Iron Maiden to psychedelic truth-drugs – that’s the set-up operated by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt.
Naturally, it has a hidden purpose: to compile dossiers of tape and film on influential political clients from East and West. Into this twilight world of decadence and hidden motives come the agents of four world powers.
Are they after Datt’s pornographic blackmail dossiers? Or is their purpose altogether more deadly than a trip to the blue movies…?
This new reissue includes a foreword from the cover designer, Oscar-winning filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman, and a brand new introduction by Len Deighton, which offers a fascinating insight into the writing of the story.
- Sales Rank: #94751 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-06-07
- Released on: 2012-06-07
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Review
'His most intriguing yet' Daily Express 'A first-rate storyteller who rarely if ever strikes a false note' Daily Mail 'Take this excellent thriller at a single gulp' Sunday Times 'The poet of the spy story' Sunday Times 'For sheer readability he has no peer' The Standard
About the Author
Born in London, Len Deighton served in the RAF before graduating from the Royal College of Art (which recently elected him a Senior Fellow). While in New York City working as a magazine illustrator he began writing his first novel, The Ipcress File, which was published in 1962. He is now the author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction. At present living in Europe, he has, over the years, lived with his family in ten different countries from Austria to Portugal.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Gallic espionage
By Dicky Cruyer
Full disclosure: I have been a great fan of Deighton for years: I prefer him to the doyen of spy authors, John LeCarre--mainly because Deighton's plain writing style appeals to me far more than Le Carre's somewhat patronising tones as if sometimes he writes the way 'we toffs talk together', so get used to it!' 'An Expensive Place to Die' is one of Deighton's lesser-known works: but the narrator, never identified, seems to be the precursor of Bernard Samson, the dry-witted, sarcastic Cockney who leads us through the labyrinthine plots of Deighton's GAME, SET and MATCH trilogy [followed by HOOK, LINE and SINKER].
Perhaps, this novel deserves to be relatively little known. The plot is lightweight and there are no memorable characters--except inevitably the luckless narrator whose employers one has to assume are MI6, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. But the novel's backdrop--Paris in the 1960s--is what saves the book: I knew Paris back then, too, and anyone who loves the City of Light, will enjoy this book. The sidewalk cafes, small artist studios, the shabby seventeenth arrondissement, the ubiquitous, blended odor of garlic and Gauloise, the cobbled streets baked by an early-summer heat wave, the resonant burps of two-stroke motorcycles--it's all here, hanging on a fragile but still very readable plot.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
EARLY LEN DEIGHTON NOVEL -- NOT UP TO HIS LATER WORK
By Loren D. Morrison
On the whole, I am a fan of most of Len Deighton's later works particularly all nine of the Bernard Samson Novels. I think that reading one of an author's early novels after having read, and enjoyed, much of his later work, leaves you ripe for a little disappointment. That was my reaction here. He just hadn't completely found his "voice" in this novel which was originally published in 1966, well before those nine Bernard Samson novels I mentioned earlier (Copyright dates 1984 through 1996).
I found the plot unnecessarily complex. It starts with an anonymous spy, residing in Paris, who receives a bundle of documents from a courier with the instructions to deliver them to a man he knows as Datt. But he is not do just deliver them at a convenient time or place. This would be too easy. He is to keep them until Datt gets them from him in his (Datt's) own time and by whatever method Datt decides on. Datt's method involves kidnapping him, injecting him with "truth serum." and having the documents stolen from his room while he is so detained. An interesting delivery, indeed!
This is the beginning of the the United States deliberate revelation of certain Nuclear Weaponry information, or perhaps well disguised misinformation, to representatives of the Chinese Communist government.
During the course of __AN EXPENSIVE PLACE TO DIE__, there are kidnappings, murders, scenes in a high end brothel that caters to diplomats, where dossiers on these diplomats are developed, and where films are made of them in compromising positions. There are surprises, double-crosses, and unexpected revelations around every corner before we finallly sort out the good(?) guys from the bad (also ?) guys.
If you like Len Deighton's later novels, this is a good book to read from the standpoint of seeing how much he developed as a spy novelist through the years, and it certainly contains the seeds of many of the themes he developed in his later novels.
In the words of a current movie critic, "I give it a moderate thumbs up."
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The French Connection
By M. Buzalka
I found An Expensive Place to Die (1967) the most readable of Len Deighton’s first four spy novels. It may or may not feature Deighton’s Man From WOOC(P) as its protagonist as his affiliation is never mentioned. In any case, he is some sort of British agent working on a rather hazy (to both him and the reader) assignment in Paris that has something to do with passing nuclear fallout data from American atomic experiments to the Chinese (China would test its first hydrogen bomb shortly after the book’s publication, which does make the story somewhat topical).
My problem with this book is that because the stakes are not made clear, it’s hard to work up any sense of suspense. The unnamed (I think he actually is named at one point but it could very be a fake name) agent does get into a couple of scrapes, including one where he is dosed with LSD as a kind of truth serum(!) but the gripping sense of true danger and tragic consequences for failure never really appear, at least they didn’t for me.
That said, An Expensive Place to Die is a modestly entertaining contribution to the swelling ranks of James Bond-ish spy literature that Ian Fleming spawned in the 1960s. In fact, this might be Deighton’s most Bondish effort with its alluring femme fatale of uncertain loyalties and eccentric villain with elaborate lair. What was also interesting to me was Deighton’s portrayal of Paris about a year before the events of 1968 with its trendinista pockets sitting side by side with squalor and all overshadowed by a truly creepy state security structure that seems to have few legal constraints.
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