The Resource Hammer to fall : a Joe Wilderness novel, John Lawton
Hammer to fall : a Joe Wilderness novel, John Lawton
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The item Hammer to fall : a Joe Wilderness novel, John Lawton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library.
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- Summary
- "It's London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. Alas, his postings are usually rather unglamorous, but thankfully he has a knack for doing well for himself even in unpromising situations. In divided Berlin, he smuggled coffee into the East, a rather profitable racket until he had to transport something else-a spy. After an aborted mission on Berlin's famous "Bridge of Spies," Wilderness is both punished and kept out of trouble with a posting to remote northern Finland. Bored by his cover as a cultural attaché, with nothing to spy on, Wilderness finds another way to make money, this time by bringing vodka across the rather porous border into the USSR after an old KGB pal tells him there is-no joke-a vodka shortage in the USSR. But with MI6 intelligence from London pointing to the refining of cobalt in the region, a critical component in the casing of the atomic bomb, Wilderness's posting is getting more interesting by the minute. And when he gets sent to Prague just before the Soviets send in tanks to quash the riotous students and artists of the Prague Spring, even the enterprising Wilderness may be out of his depth. With old friends and old enemies alike turning up in Prague, deception and danger are around every corner"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 380 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802148124
- Label
- Hammer to fall : a Joe Wilderness novel
- Title
- Hammer to fall
- Title remainder
- a Joe Wilderness novel
- Statement of responsibility
- John Lawton
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "It's London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. Alas, his postings are usually rather unglamorous, but thankfully he has a knack for doing well for himself even in unpromising situations. In divided Berlin, he smuggled coffee into the East, a rather profitable racket until he had to transport something else-a spy. After an aborted mission on Berlin's famous "Bridge of Spies," Wilderness is both punished and kept out of trouble with a posting to remote northern Finland. Bored by his cover as a cultural attaché, with nothing to spy on, Wilderness finds another way to make money, this time by bringing vodka across the rather porous border into the USSR after an old KGB pal tells him there is-no joke-a vodka shortage in the USSR. But with MI6 intelligence from London pointing to the refining of cobalt in the region, a critical component in the casing of the atomic bomb, Wilderness's posting is getting more interesting by the minute. And when he gets sent to Prague just before the Soviets send in tanks to quash the riotous students and artists of the Prague Spring, even the enterprising Wilderness may be out of his depth. With old friends and old enemies alike turning up in Prague, deception and danger are around every corner"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1949-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lawton, John
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6062.A938
- LC item number
- H36 2020
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- A Joe Wilderness novel
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Private investigators
- Cold War
- Finland
- London (England)
- Label
- Hammer to fall : a Joe Wilderness novel, John Lawton
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1105723266
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 380 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802148124
- Lccn
- 2019045235
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- System control number
- (OCoLC)1105723266
- Label
- Hammer to fall : a Joe Wilderness novel, John Lawton
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1105723266
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 380 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802148124
- Lccn
- 2019045235
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- System control number
- (OCoLC)1105723266
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