Horse under Water (Secret File #2)

Len Deighton

Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
3.75 · 12 ratings · 304 pages · Published: 1962
Horse under Water by Len Deighton
The unnamed hero of this novel smokes Gauloise cigarettes and is serious about good coffee. He spent part of WW II in Portugal. He and his boss Dawlish work in a secret branch of the War Office called W.O.O.C (P), located in a shabby building in Charlotte Street in London. They will reappear in later books. In this novel, the hero is sent on a diving course in preparation for a venture that might yield a lot of possibly counterfeited money from a sunken German WW II submarine, which could be invested discreetly, in a group planning to overthrow the then-ruling Salazar dictatorship in Portugal. Its principal locations are London and Albufeira in Portugal’s Algarve.
Apart from diving 40 meters deep, the hero is trying to find out what is really at stake. And why him to find out? Claustrophobics should skip the probes of the dark interior of the massive U-Boot. Before and during the dives, the hero is tailed, his messages are intercepted, and some of the associates forced on him die violent deaths. His mission objectives are vague and remain so. What is going on? Who is behind it all? No one seems to be who he claims to be. And some local connections go back to WW II, even to the Spanish civil war. Even the horse under water is not a horse...
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