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THE SIXTH DIRECTORATE.

Hone, Joseph.

London: Secker & Warburg, [1975]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The second Marlow spy novel. In retropect from the New York Times in 1984 by Anotole Broyard: "Joseph Hone’s Sixth Directorate, which was published in 1975, is one of the best suspense novels of the last ten years. It has elegance, wit, sympathy, irony, surprise, action, a rueful love affair and a melancholy Decline of the West mood. Only the crimes in its pages separate the book from what is known as serious novels." [Reference: Hubin, p. 411. Smith and White, Cloak and Dagger Fiction (3rd edition) 2648]. Some toning to the text paper, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (31396). Item #31396

Price: $250.00