A Taste For Death Sebastian Faulks An unnamed spy - perhaps

An unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File - is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor

When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub

and explosives

First English edition

simple truth

A Taste For Death Sebastian Faulks An unnamed spy - perhapsTwo men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew's Church, Paddington, their throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up to investigate crimes of particular sensitivity, are faced with a case of extraordinary complexity as they discover the Berowne family's veneer of prosperous gentility conceals ugly and dangerous