Buy this book on-line CROFT-COOKE**, RUPERT - aka Leo Bruce: : BARBARY NIGHTLONDON.EYRE & SPOTTISWODE,1958.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.4-colour block (black,white,red and tan) illustrated dw/dj by Harry More-Gordon; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges,head+foot of spine/
backstrip and all corners minimally rubbed with minimal loss.Head of spine/backstrip minimally chipped with subsequent minimal loss and internal sellotape repair to same.Upper panel of dw/dj has a partial coffee-ring and rear panel of dw/dj lightly grubbed with a small puncture hole.Top edge slightly dust-soiled and slightly spotted/foxed, fore-edge cleaner with light ageing and spotting also; contents though,generally bright,tight and clean.Publisher's original maroon cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-223pp includes lightly foxed/spotted half-title+
title pages and 11 chapters.
There were no hiding places left.Blane Halter had been guilty of a folly - not a crime really,but a folly which meant the end of his career, total disgrace and rejection from the decent protected world in which he had always lived.It did not matter where he went.As it happened he chose Tangier,so that is was in that cosmopolitan city on the Barbary coast that he discovered what it is like to live
in the world outside the world,with those
who have no country,no loyalties and no hope.Because he possessed secret information,Blane Halter was a valuable man.So valuable that at least two sets of desperate people were willing to kill him to get it,while a third,the most formidable,was ready to kill him to prevent them.That was why he found himself
at last in a small darkened room with the
woman who shared with him a dead-end love, waiting hour after hour for the ring at the door which would be almost the last sound either of them would ever hear.
Taken just as an entertainment this is one of the most tense and readable books of the the year (then 1958).It proves Mr Croft-Cooke a master of this kind of narrative.It is a comparatively new departure for him which follows the success of his novel 'Seven Thunders' which was made into one of the most exciting films of 1957.But more than that,
it is a very moving story of two people adrift in that world which everywhere underlies the comfortable societies of the post-war age: the world of the refugee,the stateless person,the exile,those who live only on their wits or their courage and for whom there are no hiding-places left. See also rja2011 and rja2013.
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