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The Hairless Mexican (Heathen Short)

The Hairless Mexican (Heathen Short)

Maugham, W. Somerset

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN13: 9798900750071
Publisher: Heathen Shorts
Published: Jan 7 2026
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.15 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English playwright and author whose clinical prose and worldly detachment shaped early modern fiction. Drawing on his own experience working for the British Secret Service, Maugham distilled the quiet dread of espionage into stories that read less like fiction and more like confession. Teeming with quiet realism and psychological depth, The Hairless Mexican is one such confessional. This compact tale sees British agent Ashenden paired with a professional assassin to eliminate a German courier in wartime Italy. The eponymous hitman - bald, flamboyant, and disturbingly efficient - executes his task with a detachment that unnerves even the seasoned spy. What unfolds is not a thriller but a study in cold precision, where duty trumps empathy, and the machinery of war leaves no room for sentiment. This is Maugham's memo from the trenches of spycraft: a meditation on the wages of secrecy, a portrait of calculated violence, and a parable of precision gone sideways, where the devil is not in the details but in the dispatch.

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