Book description
Deep in Marxist Guerilla territory a hopeless war is being fought.
The Berlin Wall is demolished. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramon
and his desperate men hiding in the jungle cradling their AK 47s,
dusting off the slabs of Semtex and dreaming of world revolution.
MAMista takes us to the dusty, violent capital of Spanish Guiana in
South America, and thence into the depths of the rain forest; the heart
of darkness itself. There, four people become caught up in a struggle
both political and personal, a struggle corrupted by ironies and
deceits, and riddled with the accidents of war. They are four people who
never should have found themselves bound together in a mission for
revolution, which may be the sentence of death.
Never has Deighton portrayed so accurately the terror and the tedium of
war, or the shifting alliances and betrayals between people who have
nothing to lose but their lives.
This reissue includes a foreword from the cover designer, Oscar-winning
filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman, and an introduction by Len Deighton, which
offers a fascinating insight into the writing of the story.
'Deighton's longest, most complex and passionate novel in years: an epic
tale, set in a South American jungle, of good men and women crushed
beneath the heel of Realpolitik' Kirkus Review
'You will be hooked from the first chapter and enjoy every line… The
Berlin Wall may have tumbled, destroying overnight a whole spy cottage
industry, but as the dust settles Len Deighton rises like the phoenix… a
superb novel'
Bryan Forbes, Sunday Express
'Moral ambiguity used to be called Greeneland. Since Graham Greene's
death, that territory is open for conquest. At least part of it ought to
be renamed Deightonsville'
Time Magazine Born in London, Len Deighton served in the RAF before
graduating from the Royal College of Art (which recently elected him a
Senior Fellow). While in New York City working as a magazine illustrator
he began writing his first novel, The Ipcress File, which was published
in 1962. He is now the author of more than thirty books of fiction and
non-fiction. At present living in Europe, he has, over the years, lived
with his family in ten different countries from Austria to Portugal.
