The Spy Quartet: An Expensive Place to Die, Spy Story, Yesterday’s Spy, Twinkle Twinkle Little Spy

Hollywood 2012

LEN DEIGHTON

An Expensive Place to Die

Do not disturb the President of the Republic

except in the case of world war.

Instructions for night duty officers

at the Élysée Palace

You should never beat a woman,

not even with a flower.

The Prophet Mohammed

Dying in Paris is a terribly expensive

business for a foreigner.

Oscar Wilde

The poem ‘May’ quoted here (#ulink_ab717f82-5e8b-5c64-9328-824ffa547085) is from Twentieth Century Chinese Poetry,translated by Kai-yu Hsu (copyright © Kai-yu Hsu 1963) and reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Co. Inc., New York

Contents

Cover (#u077c0fb9-605e-53c1-8c1f-149ce668fff7)

Cover designer’s note (#u45c0dc83-264d-54ac-9176-34da2ceac3dd)

Title Page (#u12f5b7d5-f8eb-5b10-9dbe-8bf48bbc2a34)

Epigraph (#u18d1bcf8-42eb-5e80-9eb6-dd6fcec005d2)

Introduction (#ua116f77f-5bb3-572e-9969-df4cb0b44caf)

Chapter 1 (#ud7536431-c564-54dc-9bc6-da8a464be5ae)

Chapter 2 (#ub7cd03e3-1bae-55f4-99ec-ae0fc8fcc206)

Chapter 3 (#u45a38f13-a779-50af-9476-20d79601f630)

Chapter 4 (#u91c71462-6e33-596c-b8f9-33ac9253bba0)

Chapter 5 (#uf7975da9-1c63-5019-9f8f-956ea223b2e7)

Chapter 6 (#u6fd90bb9-256b-5bba-8756-083257e37eba)

Chapter 7 (#uaf33af13-a475-5ee3-ade1-55fe062230fc)

Chapter 8 (#ue15c35d0-1221-5109-8909-f12f239038ab)

Chapter 9 (#u8fe45206-b4b6-5d55-b2ff-37fc08df8f1f)

Chapter 10 (#u530de54e-7bc3-5383-9639-497e0d273f2b)

Chapter 11 (#u679d3212-7ac7-565c-bf06-3313cd485abc)

Chapter 12 (#ua27ed453-2a88-5708-8927-9f7f2b9b3b73)

Chapter 13 (#ue3f08742-683a-5ae3-a91f-89deb45767ed)

Chapter 14 (#u2083eae4-9cb2-51d7-a1a2-3179a4ff2db3)

Chapter 15 (#uc8c1fcf6-e006-5515-96c0-45281c78e378)

Chapter 16 (#ufb60678f-4d15-5292-bf32-d7cde37303e1)

Chapter 17 (#ucdaabf07-502f-511d-b936-b9d8cc295c66)

Chapter 18 (#ucd77540d-2a85-52d8-916d-ce6d169011a7)

Chapter 19 (#u7f23e778-3dd4-5e84-94ce-7fa6ade651b5)

Chapter 20 (#u6d13a9c3-d670-585e-88da-7846a9db4d06)

Chapter 21 (#uc2a68012-57f6-5640-8627-6e42491a5d60)

Chapter 22 (#uece0c7c4-d5d9-54db-b4e2-03e0d8346b68)

Chapter 23 (#u49477495-faa6-5915-a1bf-e67be2c3e30c)

Chapter 24 (#uf3ac7a09-af3a-5fc9-8142-28a355f727dd)

Chapter 25 (#ud88181ee-6dde-5242-9f97-6f822adc9deb)

Chapter 26 (#u1e8d887b-7359-5301-b9d4-37e8e42fa3a8)

Chapter 27 (#u116cef57-ea04-5178-b61e-16eab31d3540)

Chapter 28 (#u770107b9-5de2-5d2e-869c-c3c7c78c3dcd)

Chapter 29 (#u09681e55-89f7-5c16-a702-ee2b35623774)

Chapter 30 (#ucaacbb65-1fdb-5a9f-beea-f4ce82f6c503)