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  Ashenden (Paperback) By (author) W. Somerset Maugham

  

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  Short Description for Ashenden When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. This title collects stories that are rooted in author's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and treachery, as well as its absurdity.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 26 September 2000
  • Format: Paperback 352 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Espionage | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780099289708 ISBN 10: 0099289709
  • Sales rank: 57,736

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• A celebrated writer by the time the war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the Secret Service to Lucerne - under the guise of completing a play. An assignment whose danger and drama appealed both to his sense of romance and of the ridiculous. The stories collected in ASHENDEN are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and treachery, as well as absurdity.