Horse Under Water Horse Under Water Horse Under Water (1963, , ) is the second of four Len Deighton spy novels featuring an unnamed British agent protagonist (named Harry Palmer in the film adaptions). It was preceded by "The IPCRESS File" and followed by "Funeral in Berlin". The novel is set in 1960, mostly in a small fishing village in Portugal, which was then a dictatorship led by António de Oliveira Salazar. It retains the style of "The IPCRESS File" — multiple plots twists, Gauloises cigarettes, grimy, and soot-stained British winter. In common with several of Deighton's other early novels, the chapter headings
James Meek (author) James Meek (author) James Meek (born 1962) is a British novelist and journalist, author of "The People's Act of Love". He was born in London, England, and grew up in Dundee, Scotland. Meek attended school at Grove Academy in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, and studied at Edinburgh University. His first short stories were published in the New Edinburgh Review and he collaborated with Duncan McLean on a play, "Faculty of Rats", which starred Angus Macfadyen. After a few years in England Meek returned to Edinburgh in 1988, where he worked for The Scotsman. The following year, his first novel, "McFarlane Boils