Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech (USA 2018)

From the Publisher:
Presenting EVAN TANNER - the first series character created by Lawrence Block, bestselling author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES...
Ever since a shred of shrapnel did a number on his brain's sleep center, Even Tanner has been awake 24/7. This gives him more time than your average underachiever. Time to learn the world's languages (he's fluent in Basque, but has trouble with Chinese). Time to embrace the world's lost causes and irredentist movements (The Flat Earth Society, the League for the Restoration of Cilician Armenia, the Society of the Left Hand). Time to write term papers theses for students with more money than knowledge. And, most important, time to do his dreaming while he's wide awake.

THE CANCELED CZECH is Tanner's second adventure. A key figure in the Nazi puppet regime of Slovakia is in jail in Prague's Hradcany Castle, and the mysterious US spymaster who thinks Tanner works for him sends our lad to rescue the man. Not surprisingly, the Slovak has an obnoxious personality; he also suffers from catalepsy. Tanner, using his contacts and working his magic, does what he's asked to do-but with a poetic twist that only Evan Tanner could think up.

Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech. Evan Tanner #2. LB Productions, ISBN: 9781729135464 (October, 2018), 198 p., Paperback $14.99 (?), eBook $6.99.

Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
Evan Tanner ran head-first into a piece of shrapnel in Korea, and now he can't sleep. Ever. Which can be an asset for a dedicated linguist, term paper forger, thief, lost cause enthusiast...
Spy.

Tanner takes on jobs for a covert intelligence organization so secret that even those who work for it have no idea who they're working for. Now his nameless supervisor wants him to sneak behind the Iron Curtain, storm an impregnable castle in Prague (alone!), and rescue an old Slovak who's got a pressing date with a hangman's noose.

The trouble is the prisoner is an unrepentant Nazi who makes Goering look like Mister Rogers. Tanner hates Nazis. If he's caught (which is likely) the U.S. will deny that they know him. And Tanner will be executed. After being tortured, no doubt. All in all, there are many excellent reasons why Tanner should refuse this assignment.

So, naturally, he says yes.

Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech. An Evan Tanner Mystery. Harper, ISBN: 0061258075 (July, 2007), 221 p., $7.99.

Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
A FOOL'S MISSION
Edgar Award-winning author Lawrence Block delivers the second suspenseful romp featuring one of his most popular characters: Evan Tanner. With a shocking array of talents and no need to sleep, Tanner poses as the perfect secret agent -- to treat a Nazi war criminal to an early withdrawal...

Janos Kotacek has been imprisoned by the Czech government and will no doubt be tried and hanged for his crimes. But to the super-secret intelligence agency that Tanner occasionally works for, Kotacek is worth more alive than dead. Tanner's orders are simple: go to Prague... storm a castle... free a criminal. That, of course, is the easy part. Keeping himself and his captive alive will take all of Tanner's waking hours. Good thing he's got some to spare.

Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech. An Evan Tanner Mystery. Signet, ISBN: 0451194047 (March, 1999), 221 p., $5.99.

Lawrence Block: The Cancelled Czech (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
Evan Michael Tanner is a man open to curious opportunities. Happily he has a lot of time to pursue them because he hasn't slept a wink since the unfortunate military accident when an errant piece of shrapnel destroyed his brain's sleep centre. Devoted to defending lost causes and beautiful women, he possesses an array of talents and connections so singular that he's a natural for perilous top-secret missions - the sort that will retroactively cease to exist if something goes wrong.

This time, enlisted by an undercover agency so secret that neither it nor its jovial chief has a name, Tanner heads for Czechoslovakia, where he must engineer the kidnap of a dying man. But first he finds himself leaping from a moving train, tangling with an amorous blonde, and trying to act convincing as the featured speaker at a neo-Nazi rally.

Lawrence Block: The Cancelled Czech. No Exit Press, ISBN: 1874061580 (September, 1996), 186 p., £4.99.

Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
Despite his best intentions, Evan Tanner has become a full-fledged secret agent, working for a man-with-no-name who heads an undercover agency so secret that it doesn't have a name either. This time all Tanner has to do is slip into Czechoslovakia unnoticed, slip out of the clutches of a beautiful blonde -- and engineer the most outrageously impossible kidnapping of the century...

Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech. Featuring EVAN TANNER, The Most Unusual Spy Who Ever Lived! Jove Books, ISBN: 0515079138 (November, 1984), 186 p., $2.95.

Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech (USA 1966)

From the Publisher:
Her name was Greta. She was the sort of Czech, that every crook in Europe would like to see bounce
Another Adventure featuring Evan Tanner, famous as 'The Thief who couldn't Sleep'

Me? A, secret agent??
Yes, me, and what was worse, both the FBI and the CIA had me pegged as a subversive. That's what the man-with-no-name told me.

The man-with-no-name headed an undercover agency so secret that even it didn't have a name. And all they wanted me to do was slip unnoticed into the middle of Czechoslovakia, smack into the clutches of a nearly mad blonde, an absolutely mad cataleptic, and a band of frenzied Israeli patriots -- and right under all their noses I was to engineer the most outrageously impossible kidnapping of the century.

Would I be so kind as to do that little favor for them? Or would I rather just be turned over to the FBI and CIA and maybe never be heard of again?

Lawrence Block: The Canceled Czech. Fawcett Gold Medal d1747, 221 p., $0.50.