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William Wingate Fireplay
Hutchinson 1977 0091294800 / 9780091294809 Hardcover Very Good
"Like New Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, remainder mark on bottom page edge, Price-clipped dust jacket, some light cover and edge handling wear, Previous Owner's bookplate on the inside of front cover otherwise a very fine copy -ss ID: mon0000150877"
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7.82 USD
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William Wingate Fireplay
Hutchinson 1977 0091294800 / 9780091294809 Hardcover Very Good
"'() April 1973—a hot and sticky month in the mid-Pacific, the month of hurricane Clarissa. While Clarissa raged above the surface, the Soviet submarine Doneska sank to the sea bottom some 950 miles northeast of Midway atoll. And so it began… And so it did. The sinking of a Soviet Golf-class submarine inspired my novel Fireplay. I started writing almost immediately after reading a lengthy and brilliant account of what was known of the event by Seymour Hersh in the International Herald Tribune. The event itself to this day remains deep in mystery and secrecy but, I am sure, whatever happened is nothing like as I imagined. Fireplay was my first novel and it was accepted with much enthusiasm by the first agent I approached. It was accepted by the first publisher my agent, in turn, approached. Also with great enthusiasm. Everybody had high hopes that Fireplay—the title came from the expression ‘playing with fire’—would be an international bestseller. Possibly fueling these hopes was the'''' ID: mon0000083603"
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