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Len Deighton
MAMista
Copyright
This novel is entirely a work of fiction.
The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
This paperback edition 2011
First published in Great Britain by Century in 1991
Copyright © Len Deighton 1991
Introduction copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 2011
Cover designer’s note © Arnold Schwartzman 2011
Len Deighton asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
MAMISTA. Copyright © Len Deighton 1991. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Source ISBN: 9780007385850
EPub Edition © JULY 2011 ISBN: 9780007450855 Version: 2017-08-10
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Cover designer’s note
Introduction
1
The smell of the rain forest came on the offshore…
2
The man’s name was buried in a Spanish Guiana file…
3
Ralph Lucas was forty-five years old and every year of…
4
Ralph Lucas did not much like flying and he detested…
5
From the top floor of the American embassy building on…
6
Despite his US passport, Angel Paz had not been permitted…
7
The glass doors of Tepilo’s police headquarters were tinted bronze.
8
‘Speedy Gonzales’ – Thorburn’s twin-engined Beech – might have been…
9
‘It’s not unlike Florida.’ When Jack Charrington closed his desk,…
10
The jeep’s engine was not running smoothly, and that worried…
11
A photograph of Rosario, artfully soft-focused and with some red…
12
By the time that Rosario was fully awake, the MAMista…
13
It was called ‘la residencia’: a grand country mansion in…
14
Ralph Lucas, sitting at his bench looking out of the…
15
The Roosevelt Room was the most elegant of all the…
16
It was called ‘the winter camp’ even now, when no…
17
In the first light of morning no landscape beckons the…
18
Where else in all the world, thought John Curl, could…
19
There is always mist on a jungle dawn. It sits…
20
Angel Paz’s father was five feet six inches tall. He…
21
The river was very wide. The far bank was shiny…
22
It had been a fiercely hot summer. The sprinklers could…
23
‘Do you believe in life after death?’ Singer asked. They’d…
24
It was not an ambush. The two parties had blundered…
25
No one was immune to the torments of the jungle.
26
There was a time when the President of the United…
About the Author
Other Books by Len Deighton
About the Publisher
Cover designer’s note
Prompted by seeing the renderings of my two murals for Cunard’s new ship, Queen Elizabeth, Len Deighton suggested that I illustrate some of the covers of this next quartet of re-issues. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to draw once again, as it has been well over thirty years since my days as a regular illustrator for the Sunday Times.
MAMista
