Pincher Martin charts". ("A single point of rock, peak of a mountain range, one tooth set in the ancient jaw of a sunken world, projecting through the inconceivable vastness of the whole ocean.") It is due to these descriptions that a number of critics and reviewers proposed that the setting provided is that of Rockall, which seems to fit the definitions given. Pincher Martin Pincher Martin (published in America as Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin), is a novel by British writer William Golding, first published in 1956. It is Golding's third novel, following "The Inheritors" and his debut "Lord
Chapman Pincher public setting in the near future. Wright, a retired MI5 Soviet counterespionage officer, was Pincher's main source for "Their Trade is Treachery", along with British MP Jonathan Aitken and Wright's former colleague Arthur S. Martin. Aitken, using information from retired CIA counterespionage chief James Jesus Angleton, wrote a highly confidential letter in early 1980 to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, outlining Angleton's suspicions of Hollis acting as a double agent. Pincher became ensnared in 1986 in the "Spycatcher" affair, when Wright tried to publish his own book in Australia, in apparent violation of his oath-taking of the Official Secrets Act