Tremor of Intent — Anthony Burgess (Penguin)
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'Tremor of Intent' by Anthony Burgess is a darkly comic Cold War spy novel that follows Denis Hillier, an ageing British secret agent sent to bring back his former school friend Edwin Roper, a scientist who has defected to the Soviet Union. Hillier’s mission takes him aboard the passenger ship *Polyolbion* and into a strange world of espionage, sexual intrigue, violence, gluttony and shifting loyalties. Beneath its parody of the spy fiction of Ian Fleming and Len Deighton, Burgess explores questions of morality, religion, guilt and the ethical dilemmas of the nuclear age. First published by Heinemann in 1966, the novel combines espionage adventure with Burgess’s characteristic wordplay, satire and philosophical concerns.
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Fair condition
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