The Mysterious Press, New York, 1981. Hardcover. First edition. Limited edition with DJ and matching slipcase. This is #143 of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the Garfield on the limitation page. Sequel to Garfied's award-wining HOPSCOTCH. Basically "as new," unread copy.

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Titre

Checkpoint Charlie

�diteur

The Mysterious Press, New York, New York

Date de parution

1981

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0892960558

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780892960552

Reliure

Cloth

Illustrateur

Frances O'Brien

�dition

First Edition

�tat de l'article

Fine

�tat de la jaquette

Fine

Sign�

Signed by Author(s)

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A dozen stories tracking the Cia's most adept -- and unusual -- spy

There are no more spies like Charlie Dark. An old-timer whose experience stretches back to the Second World War, his main distinction is that after decades playing the game he is still alive. He is overweight, clumsy, and afraid of guns -- a nonconformist in an agency built on toeing the line. Though his superiors hate him for his eccentricities, they privately admit that he may be the best spy they have.

Charlie travels the globe in these twelve stories, working in Berlin, Moscow, Africa, and Asia. He fights a female assassin in Dar es Salaam, and looks for a computer chip lost in the permanent snows of the Aleutian Islands. He adapts continuously, for each adventure is a new puzzle, and a new opportunity to die.

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