John le Carr� meets the Coen brothers in this inspired road novel about secret agents on a mission to find meaning in their lives.... David (as he's currently known) was one of an elite corps of spies trained during the chilliest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone and for nine years he has been an ordinary, upstanding citizen....Until, that is, a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him. The only other known survivor of that elite corps has gone rogue. They need David to stop him. What ensues is ...
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John le Carr� meets the Coen brothers in this inspired road novel about secret agents on a mission to find meaning in their lives.... David (as he's currently known) was one of an elite corps of spies trained during the chilliest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone and for nine years he has been an ordinary, upstanding citizen....Until, that is, a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him. The only other known survivor of that elite corps has gone rogue. They need David to stop him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the board that is the American landscape. Haunting, visceral, and utterly magnificent, Death Will Have Your Eyes is a novel about spying in the way that All the King's Men is a novel about politics - ultimately, its agents spy into that oddity known as the human condition.
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Add this copy of Death Will Have Your Eyes to cart. $19.26, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by No Exit Press.
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No Jacket. Harpenden. 1997. No Exit Press. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Cloth. No Dustjacket As Issued. 1874061947. 184 pages. hardcover. Cover photograph-Robert Harding Picture Library. Signed by the Author. keywords: Mystery Spies Literature. DESCRIPTION-David (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone and for almost a decade he has been out of the rat race and working as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogue. They need David to stop him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the great board that is the American landscape, through the diners and motels that dot the terrain like green plastic houses on a Monopoly board. inventory #26534.
