The Whip Hand (novel)

{{Short description|1965 novel}}

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| author = Victor Canning

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| series = Rex Carver

| genre = Spy thriller

| publisher = Heinemann

| release_date = 1965

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| media_type = Print

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The Whip Hand is a 1965 spy novel by the British writer Victor Canning.Reilly p.254 It is the first in a series of four novels about Rex Carver, a private detective drawn back into his old profession of espionage.Murphy p.79Burton p.81 The novel also features the secret service agent Manston who had also appeared in The Limbo Line, Canning's previous novel.