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MAMista

MAMista Hardcover - 1991

by Deighton, Len

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London: Random Century Group, 1991. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: The Berlin Wall is demolished. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramon and his desperate men hiding in the jungle cradling their AK.47's, dusting off the slabs of Semtex and dreaming of world revolution. Len Deighton's brilliant and upsetting new novel takes us to the dusty, violent capital of Spanish Guiana in South America, and thence into the depths of the rain forest; the heart of darkness itself. There, four people become caught up in a struggle both political and personal, a struggle corrupted by ironies and deceits, and riddled with the accidents of war. They are four people who never should have found themselves bound together in a mission for revolution. Ralph Lucas, the Australian doctor, came to the jungle on charitable business, strictly civilian. Tending front-line casualties of war, with too few medical supplies and only a beautiful but untrained woman by his side, was not on the agenda. Gerald Singer, tough, black warrior, with an indomitable sense of humour, was already in guerrilla territory. He could take it. Up to a point. Angel Paz, part charming youngster, part violent hoodlum, had theories about everything. His arrogance would set in motion the last terrible endgame. But it was Inez who would suffer the most; for being a woman, an educated woman. At guerrilla headquarters she was Ramon's right-hand. In the jungle she was the butt of men's jokes and the subject of their fantasies. For the men in Washington this MAMista "patrol" was just one short entry in a busy world-wide agenda. But for the three men and one woman trapped in the jungle of our nightmares it was the sentence of death. Never has Deighton portrayed so accurately the terror and the tedium of war, or the shifting alliances and betrayals between people who have nothing to lose but their lives. If Deighton's great sagas Game, Set and Match and Hook, Line and Sinker broke new ground for the spy thriller, then MAMista opens a new era for the adventure novel.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Henri Emilion Rousseau. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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  • Title MAMista
  • Author Deighton, Len
  • Illustrator Henri Emilion Rousseau
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Random Century Group, London
  • Date 1991
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 001613
  • ISBN 9780712649636 / 0712649638
  • Weight 2.12 lbs (0.96 kg)

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