Proof

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Автор: Фрэнсис Дик

Язык: английский

Год: 1984

Издатель: Michael Joseph

ISBN: 978-0-7181-2481-6

Город: London

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If you mix a liquid with gunpowder and ignite it, and it burns with a steady blue flame, then the liquid must be at least fifty percent alcohol; and that’s PROOF... That’s the way they proved a liquid was alcohol in the seventeenth century when distilled spirits were first taxed, and that’s what is meant by proof to this day. Tony Beach, wine merchant, knew his scotch, so to be asked to give his opinion of one particular bottle seemed harmless enough, but the bottle contained firewater of a highly-explosive nature... and Tony without intending it had set out on a one-way route into danger. From a harmless Sunday morning party at a racing stable and onwards to the edge of death, Tony comes nearer and nearer to a lethal adversary and also to unexpected knowledge of his own true self.