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...
- Author
- Robert Sheckley
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 159
- Publisher
- Ace Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780441273089
- Genres
- humor, thriller, fiction, espionage
- Release date
- 1980
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