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In the small hours of a blustery October morning in a south Devon coastal town that seemed to have been deserted by its inhabitants, Magnus Pym got out of his elderly country taxicab and, having paid the driver and waited till he had left, struck out across the church square. - A Perfect Spy [Books (First Lines)] Ten minutes to midnight: a pious Friday evening in May and a fine river mist lying in the market square. - A Small Town in Germany [Books (First Lines)] Two seemingly unconnected events heralded the summons of Mr. George Miley from his dubious retirement. - Smiley's People [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Afterwards, in the dusty little corners where London's secret servants drink together, there was argument about where the Dolphin case history should really begin. - The Honourable Schoolboy [Books (First Lines)] It was the Bad Godesberg incident that gave the proof, though the German authorities had no earthly means of knowing this. - The Little Drummer Girl [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Snow covered the airfield. - The Looking Glass War [Books (First Lines)] In a broad Moscow street not two hundred yards from the Leningrad station, on the upper floor of an ornate and hideous hotel built by Stalin in the style known to Muscovites as Empire During the Plague, the British Council's first ever audio fair for the teaching of the English language and the spread of British culture was grinding to its excruciating end. - The Russia House [Books (First Lines)] The American handed Leamas another cup of coffee and said, "Why don't you go back and sleep? We can ring you if he shows up." - The Spy Who Came in from the Cold [Books (First Lines)] The truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all. - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy [Books (First Lines)]
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