“Progress is man’s indifference to the lessons of history.”
An Expensive Place to Die, Jonathan Cape (1967) Ch. 39
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An Expensive Place to Die
An Expensive Place to Die is a 1967 novel by Len Deighton. It is set initially in Paris and takes its title from an Oscar Wilde quotation about the said city. The action concerns the shady dealing and possible expensive pimping of one Monsieur Datt against a background of espionage. This is the fifth novel in the "unnamed hero" series, but unlike the previous ones, it includes chapters and sections in the third person.
