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The Talbot Odyssey Hardcover - 1984

by De Mille, Nelson

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first

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New York: Delacorte Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". 422pp. Inscribed by Nelson De Mille at title page to Earlene Scott, owner of Scott's Books in Newnan, Georgia. Mild edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with small tear near tail of spine, wear to fold-overs, and gentle bumping to head of spine. Tan paper over boards, with spine backed in red cloth and lettered in gilt. Gentle bumping to head of spine, else fine, firm, and sound. Light dust soiling to top edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very handsome signed first printing of this spy novel by Nelson De Mille.
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  • Title The Talbot Odyssey
  • Author De Mille, Nelson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 422
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Delacorte Press, New York
  • Date 1984
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 3566
  • ISBN 9780385293228 / 0385293224
  • Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Espionage, Soviet
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 83024007
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole--code-named Talbot--inside the CIA. At first Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York, while in a Long Island suburb a civic demonstration against the Russian mission masks a desperate duel of nerves and wits. Engineered by Talbot, a shadow world of suspicion and deceit is spilling onto the streets--leading to a new Soviet weapon and a first-strike war plan threatening the foundations of American government. For the U.S., time is running out. For Talbot, the time is now.

First line

Patrick O'Brien stood on the sixty-ninth floor observation roof of the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center and looked off to the south.

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