TREMOR OF INTENT: A Novel

'The spy novel to end all spy novels.' The author of A Clockwork Orange (1962) tells a funny morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad. Denis Hillier is an aging British agent based in Yugoslavia. His old school friend Roper has defected to the USSR to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must bring Roper back to England or risk losing his fat retirement bonus. As thoughtful as it is funny, this morality tale features sex, gluttony, violence, treachery, and religion. Burgess's cast of astonishing characters includes Roper's German prostitute wife, Miss Devi and her Tamil love treatise, and the large Mr. Theodorescu, international secret-monger and lascivious gourmand. The novel is a rare combination of the serious and the deadly, the absurd, the lofty and the lusty. We are delighted to have found this US paperback edition on a recent buying trip. 258pp.