The Small Back Room

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Cassell
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: Reprint

Description: 192 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Sammy Is A Weapons Scientist, But With A Disability Has Left Him Disillusioned And Also A Drink Problem. Now The Enemy Has A New Booby Bomb, Can He At Last Prove His Worth And Defuse It.

Publishers Description: A true modern classic, The Small Back Room is a towering novel of the Second World War.Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the back room boys of the Second World War. A crippling disability has left him cynical and disillusioned - he struggles with a drink problem at home, and politics and petty pride at work. Worse still, he fears he is not good enough for the woman he loves.The stakes are raised when the enemy begin to drop a new type of booby-trapped bomb, causing many casualties. Only Sammy has the know-how to diffuse it - but as he comes face to face with real danger, all his old inadequacies return to haunt him.Can he, at last, prove his worth and put his demons to rest

ISBN: 9780304356942