Len Deighton
City of Gold
City of Gold
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Captain Albert Cutler is sent to Cairo to find a spy leaking British secrets to the German commander. The city is a place of fool's gold, where nothing can be taken at face value, and the pace of the story is compulsive. The novel is reminiscent in spirit to Casablanca.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 25 November 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
A superb example of Deighton's craft, Robert Harris's January 1942 novel "Rommel's Troops Are at the Gates of Egypt" vividly portrays the tense atmosphere of a city on the brink of invasion. As Rommel's troops advance towards Cairo, a spy within British intelligence is leaking vital secrets to the German commander, prompting the deployment of Captain Albert Cutler to uncover the traitor among the bustling streets and bustling bazaars of the city. However, Cutler is not your typical spy, and Cairo is a place where nothing is as it seems. The novel's pace is relentless, drawing the reader into Deighton's vivid descriptions of wartime Cairo. The Daily Telegraph praised it as a "real pleasure to be swallowed up in Deighton's descriptions of wartime Cairo," while Kirkus Reviews compared it to the spirit of Casablanca and urged readers to play it again.
Weight: 258g
Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241505311
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