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Message no. 1
From: "Sascha Pabst" <Sascha.Pabst@**********.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
Subject: The books you mentioned...
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 18:23:46 +0200
At 23:06 Uhr 22.05.96, Paul J. Adam wrote:
>Undercover work? In areas like that? Not a hope. You want a passable
>example of what it was like in the 1970s, read "Harry's Game" by Gerald
>Seymour: the story is of a British intelligence officer sent undercover
>to assassinate a key player. Another very appropriate Seymour is "At
>Close Quarters", where an Israeli sniper and his assistant have to kill
>a Palestinian terrorist in the Bekaa Valley. Shows the flip side of
>operating in hostile territory, where you may individually outgun and
>out-skill every opponent... but your mission depends on not alerting the
>target.
Do you have ISBN#s of these books? It will be hard enough to order them
from here (Germany), even WITH ISBN, but I'll try!

Sascha

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Message no. 2
From: "Paul J. Adam" <paul@********.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: The books you mentioned...
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 09:18:14 +0100
In message <v01540b03adca33d10192@[134.106.1.83]>, Sascha Pabst
<Sascha.Pabst@**********.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> writes
>At 23:06 Uhr 22.05.96, Paul J. Adam wrote:
>>Undercover work? In areas like that? Not a hope. You want a passable
>>example of what it was like in the 1970s, read "Harry's Game" by Gerald
>>Seymour: the story is of a British intelligence officer sent undercover
>>to assassinate a key player. Another very appropriate Seymour is "At
>>Close Quarters", where an Israeli sniper and his assistant have to kill
>>a Palestinian terrorist in the Bekaa Valley. Shows the flip side of
>>operating in hostile territory, where you may individually outgun and
>>out-skill every opponent... but your mission depends on not alerting the
>>target.
>Do you have ISBN#s of these books? It will be hard enough to order them
>from here (Germany), even WITH ISBN, but I'll try!

Don't have a copy of Harry's Game handy, but "At Close Quarters" is
0-00-617676-X in paperback.

If you don't have any luck, let me know and I'll buy them for you and
mail them :)


"There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk

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