The Man Who Was Saturday

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The Man Who Was Saturday
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First edition (US)
Author Derek Lambert
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
Publisher Hamish Hamilton (UK)
Stein and Day (US)
Publication date
1985
Media typePrint

The Man Who Was Saturday is a 1985 thriller novel by the British writer Derek Lambert. An American defector to the Soviet Union schemes to return home against the best efforts of the KGB. [1]

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