The Great Bridge Conspiracy chronicles the espionage and card playing exploits of Captain Diggery Piper -- a flamboyant expert first created by Terry Quinn for a serial in Games Magazine. Just as Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and Nabokov's The Defense are structured in accordance with the rules and logic of chess, so Quinn has patterned the action of this swift-paced, suspenseful tale on the psychological intricacies of bridge, craftily building a house of cards that tumbles into a surprise ending.
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The Great Bridge Conspiracy chronicles the espionage and card playing exploits of Captain Diggery Piper -- a flamboyant expert first created by Terry Quinn for a serial in Games Magazine. Just as Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and Nabokov's The Defense are structured in accordance with the rules and logic of chess, so Quinn has patterned the action of this swift-paced, suspenseful tale on the psychological intricacies of bridge, craftily building a house of cards that tumbles into a surprise ending.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Inscribed By the Author An unassuming mail clerk is obsessed with playing bridge, and then he meets Captain Diggery Piper, a cardplaying wizard and master spy who leads him on a path towards the National Champinship. Spine ends gently bumped. Jacket shows a touch of corresponding wear, in Brodart. Inscribed to the previous owner and signed by Quinn on the front end paper.
