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The Game of X

This spy business can happen to anyone. That's what William P. Nye discovers when he accepts the offer of a job from his friend George — just a casual invitation in a little Paris cafe. Nye little realises that this is the start of his meteoric careers as Special Agent X — an imaginary super-spy dreamed up as a ploy in the war of nerves...

X bluffs and blunders along the perilous paths of big-time espionage — chained to the wall in a medieval torture chamber, snatched in the nick of time from the jaws of rusty iron pincers... jabbed by a red-faced enemy agent's knife on a crowded steamer... pea-shot with poison darts by a dwarf disguised as a schoolboy... chased by a gondola through the foul-smelling garbage-laden canals of Venice... flying an aeroplane without a lesson... duelling to the death with ancient battle-axes...

Nye begins to wonder if he really is the indomitable, feared, king-size Agent X. Everyone else seems to think so...

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 159
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780441273089
  • Genres
  • humor, thriller, fiction, espionage
  • Release date
  • 1980