Moscow Metal
by Boyer, Rick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- G : in Good condition with marked dust jacket. Pages browning
- ISBN 10
- 0575042451
- ISBN 13
- 9780575042452
- Seller
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Alnwick, Northumberland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. G : in Good condition with marked dust jacket. Pages browning. 1988. First U.K Edition. Black hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 264pp. .
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On Jul 6 2010, Feeney said:
Frequently bored Concord, Massachusetts dental surgeon Charles "Doc" Adams gives sanctuary to his neighbor, a Hungarian scientist. His name is Emil Haszmanay. He is revealed as a double agent spying for both the Soviet KGB and the US CIA. Evidence grows that both agencies would not mind seeing Emil dead. Haszmanay works on top-secret US government projects at nearby Lincoln Laboratory. He suspects two things (1) Someone in the lab is leaking secrets to the Soviets and (2) Someone in the CIA is a mole planted by the KGB. *****Doc's cat is hit by a pellet fired at Haszmanay. The cat dies is agony. An autopsy shows that the pellet was radioactive thallium, a favored KGB weapon. Poisoned thallium pellets are so closely identified with the KGB that they are styled "Moscow Metal" by the CIA and FBI. A tiny bit of the pellet gets into a cut on the hand of Mary Adams, Doc's wife and she is seriously ill for days. *****For a while Doc is able to shield Emil Haszmonay from both CIA, FBI and KGB pursuers. Emil fears that the dreaded KGB killer called TALIN is after him, which means he is as good as dead already. ARGUS, a secret super computer named for Odysseus's faithful old hound, is going to be transported from the Lincoln Laboratory by train to the western USA. The KGB wants to steal it, analyze it and thereby prevent the West from gaining a ten year advantage in "Star Wars" missile defenses. ***** Doc, working with local police, manages to set a trap for the robbers. As the freight train begins to move west, Doc sneaks aboard. He finds himself involved in a deadly struggle for a thallium-shooting pellet gun with a CIA agent supposedly protecting the mighty computer ARGUS.The landscape in and near Concord and Boston, Massachusetts comes alive by day and especially by darkest night as Doc Adams makes time between pulling teeth and repairing jaws to defend his country from the evil Soviets. His ways are not always approved by the CIA and FBI but they get results. A pleasant page-turner. Light bedtime reading. Timely in mid 2010 when Russian sleeper spies fill the headlines of American media. -OOO-
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Details
- Bookseller
- Barter Books Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- bbb518
- Title
- Moscow Metal
- Author
- Boyer, Rick
- Format/Binding
- Black hardback cloth cover
- Book Condition
- Used - G : in Good condition with marked dust jacket. Pages browning
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.K Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0575042451
- ISBN 13
- 9780575042452
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Fiction, First Editions
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Since its opening in 1991 within the premises of a small model factory at Alnwick Station, Barter Books has grown well beyond original expectations. Starting off in what was the ticket and parcel office of the original Station, the bookshop has expanded down the platforms and through the waiting rooms, until it now covers over one-quarter of the whole Station site. This translates into an area exceeding 8000 square feet and containing over 350,000 books on more than three miles of shelving. Also the Famous Writers Mural - 40 feet long by 18 feet high, the similarly sized Railway Mural and the Tennyson Installation. The bookshop also sells secondhand videos and music (CDs, LPs, cassettes, sheet music), as well as a small but growing section of artists' prints. And then there are the shop's many extra features! These include an open fire in the winter, coffee and cookies, a model railway running above the book columns, a mini-cybercafe, generous seating and browsing areas, a children's room, and dozens of glass cases containing many of the more interesting antiquarian books. The latest feature is the Station Buffet with hot and cold food and a fine selection of coffees and teas. A final note: during the enlargement process the owners took (and are taking!) particular pleasure in restoring, as they can, various features of the Station. This so far includes the original North Eastern Railway cast iron fireplaces, two of the Station clocks, a drinking fountain, and various waiting rooms. Most dramatic of all, however, was the restoration of part of the glass roof. That was when we all stood about watching as the sun came streaming in for the first time in many years to bring the wonderful old Station visually back to life.
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