Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech (USA 2018) From the Publisher: THE CANCELED CZECH is Tanner's second adventure. A key figure in the Nazi puppet regime of Slovakia is in jail in Prague's Hradcany Castle, and the mysterious US spymaster who thinks Tanner works for him sends our lad to rescue the man. Not surprisingly, the Slovak has an obnoxious personality; he also suffers from catalepsy. Tanner, using his contacts and working his magic, does what he's asked to do-but with a poetic twist that only Evan Tanner could think up. Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech. Evan Tanner #2. LB Productions, ISBN: 9781729135464 (October, 2018), 198 p., Paperback $14.99 (?), eBook $6.99.
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Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech (USA 2007) From the Publisher: Tanner takes on jobs for a covert intelligence organization so secret that even those who work for it have no idea who they're working for. Now his nameless supervisor wants him to sneak behind the Iron Curtain, storm an impregnable castle in Prague (alone!), and rescue an old Slovak who's got a pressing date with a hangman's noose. The trouble is the prisoner is an unrepentant Nazi who makes Goering look like Mister Rogers. Tanner hates Nazis. If he's caught (which is likely) the U.S. will deny that they know him. And Tanner will be executed. After being tortured, no doubt. All in all, there are many excellent reasons why Tanner should refuse this assignment. So, naturally, he says yes. Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech. An Evan Tanner Mystery. Harper, ISBN: 0061258075 (July, 2007), 221 p., $7.99.
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Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech (USA 1999) From the Publisher: Janos Kotacek has been imprisoned by the Czech government and will no doubt be tried and hanged for his crimes. But to the super-secret intelligence agency that Tanner occasionally works for, Kotacek is worth more alive than dead. Tanner's orders are simple: go to Prague... storm a castle... free a criminal. That, of course, is the easy part. Keeping himself and his captive alive will take all of Tanner's waking hours. Good thing he's got some to spare. Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech. An Evan Tanner Mystery. Signet, ISBN: 0451194047 (March, 1999), 221 p., $5.99.
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Lawrence Block: The Cancelled Czech (UK 1996) From the Publisher: This time, enlisted by an undercover agency so secret that neither it nor its jovial chief has a name, Tanner heads for Czechoslovakia, where he must engineer the kidnap of a dying man. But first he finds himself leaping from a moving train, tangling with an amorous blonde, and trying to act convincing as the featured speaker at a neo-Nazi rally. Lawrence Block: The Cancelled Czech. No Exit Press, ISBN: 1874061580 (September, 1996), 186 p., £4.99.
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Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech (USA 1984) From the Publisher: Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech. Featuring EVAN TANNER, The Most Unusual Spy Who Ever Lived! Jove Books, ISBN: 0515079138 (November, 1984), 186 p., $2.95.
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Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech (USA 1966) From the Publisher: Me? A, secret agent?? The man-with-no-name headed an undercover agency so secret that even it didn't have a name. And all they wanted me to do was slip unnoticed into the middle of Czechoslovakia, smack into the clutches of a nearly mad blonde, an absolutely mad cataleptic, and a band of frenzied Israeli patriots -- and right under all their noses I was to engineer the most outrageously impossible kidnapping of the century. Would I be so kind as to do that little favor for them? Or would I rather just be turned over to the FBI and CIA and maybe never be heard of again? Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech. Fawcett Gold Medal d1747, 221 p., $0.50.
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