Checkpoint Charlie [Signed]

Brian Garfield

ISBN 10: 0892960558 / ISBN 13: 9780892960552

Edité par Mysterious Press, New York, 1981

A propos de cet article

New York: Mysterious Press, 1981. Limited First Edition; lettered "ec" out of series on tipped-in limitation slip. Octavo (22cm); 204pp. Publisher s illustrated dust jacket; boards bound in green cloth with gilt stamping to spine; matching green slipcase; green endsheets. Dust jacket edges are worn; tear forming at front top right corner; rear bottom corner chipped with no obstruction to text. Rear jacket panel is discolored along edges; spine is lightly faded. Boards clean aside from bumping to spine bottom; corners sharp. Binding sound. Textblock and interior pages clean. Slipcase shows minor scuffing and bumping to corners and edges; otherwise clean. A Very Good copy in like jacket and slipcase. Signed and inscribed "For Joe and Dori with much love" by Garfield. Checkpoint Charlie compiles twelve short stories about CIA agent Charlie Dark. The collection serves as a sequel to Garfield s Hopscotch, which originated the character and earned the author an Edgar Allen Poe Award in 1976.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Checkpoint Charlie [Signed]
• Éditeur: Mysterious Press, New York
• Date de parution: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0892960558
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780892960552
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Mystery / Thriller
  • First Editions
  • Signed

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.