Egelton, Author, Clive Egleton, Author Stein and Day $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8128-3096-5
Egleton's latest suspense novel (after In the Red ) is a fast-paced, absorbing story of computer espionage in London. Major ``Dutch'' Hollands, American Lt. Col. Lindsey Whyte and Stan Edwards of British Intelligence have volunteered for Christmas...
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Clive Egelton, Author, Clive Egleton, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-15685-5
Old fans of the Peter Ashton series (A Lethal Involvement, etc.) will relish getting reacquainted with Egleton's characters while new readers will quickly be brought up to speed in this latest spy novel from the veteran author. The old cast returns...
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Clive Egleton, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-04677-4
In Egleton's latest, formulaic thriller ( Missing from the Record ), British intelligence agent Harry Freeland has been sent to Shanghai in 1949 to bring out another operative. As becomes increasingly apparent, however, Freeland seems to have a...
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Clive Egleton, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-26924-1
The cold war is over, but men like Peter Ashton of the British SIS still face extraordinary dangers as they confront multinational terrorism that can strike anywhere, at any time, with powerful weapons. And in the world of spies, counterspies,...
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Clive Egleton, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14313-8
Egleton's espionage thrillers are like single-malt whiskey: smooth, smoky and rich, but eventually befuddling if you don't keep your wits about you. This one begins with a story about a possible murder in Germany in 1975. In the present, Peter...
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Clive Egleton, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (361p) ISBN 978-0-312-11774-0
Of hero Peter Ashton (A Killing in Moscow) a character intones, ``Last time [he] was in Moscow there was bloodshed all over the city.'' The 30-something British agent does attract more than his share of violence. On the trail of ``Valentin,'' a high-
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Clive Egleton, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-312-10487-0
British spy Peter Ashton, first seen in Hostile Intent , has now taken a career jump sideways, to head the Vetting, Security and Technical Services division of Britain's SIS. Still under a shadow of suspicion from his earlier adventure, still...
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Clive Egleton, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-312-08812-5
British thriller veteran Egleton ( A Double Deception ) has written better endings--and better books--but even when off his form, he's engagingly knowledgeable and has a knack for pacing. In the spring of 1991, a minor British agent is apparently...
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Clive Egleton, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-312-07736-5
Tricks and treachery abound in Egleton's ( Last Act ) latest spy thriller, and if perceptive readers cotton to the chief deception a mite early, they won't mind--Egleton plays scrupulously fair and his plot just barrels along. As the story opens, in
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Clive Egleton, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-28699-6
In British veteran Egleton's latest compelling thriller to feature Peter Ashton (after 2001's The Honey Trap), the troubles never seem to end for the bright, affable secret agent, who has been cashiered from the SIS because his cover was...
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Clive Egleton, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-312-05887-6
It's no sin that the good guys here are more interesting than the bad guys; the problem is that neither group arouses adequate excitement. After a short chapter ends in a spectacular 1958 suicide, the story flashes back to the anti-Nazi Warsaw...
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Clive Egleton, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (286p) ISBN 978-0-312-02253-2
In the first chapter of this run-of-the-mill spy novel, British secret service (SIS) agent Sarah Lucas gets a knock on the head, loses 4.5 million in gold and is taken prisoner by the VC during the fall of Saigon. Ten years later, no longer an agent,
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Clive Egleton, Author Severn House Publishers $28.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6591-5
This spy thriller from British author Egleton (A Spy's Ransom), a reissue of 1982's The Russian Enigma under a new title, still has pertinent things to say about the background of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and about espionage in general. Charles
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Clive Egleton, Author . Severn $27.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6182-5
First published in the U.K. in 1972 under the title The Judas Mandate
, Egleton's third alternative history set in a Soviet-occupied Britain blends, like its predecessors (Never Surrender
and The Sleeper
), tough-nosed realism with a poetic...
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Clive Egleton, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (345p) ISBN 978-0-312-34745-1
Egleton's latest thriller (after 2004's Assassination Day
) opens with a bloody massacre in a quiet Italian restaurant in a fashionable London neighborhood and takes off from there at full speed. The victims include a mid-rank British...
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Clive Egleton, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-32637-1
If anyone can keep the old-fashioned spy novel alive, it's British veteran Egleton (Cry Havoc
; etc.). As usual, he starts things off with a bang: a leading London literary agent receives a tell-all memoir written by an intelligence officer who...
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Clive Egleton, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-30943-5
British veteran Egleton (One Man Running, etc.) is the pipe and slippers of the thriller trade, a great comfort after a day of dealing with flashier and more trendy stories. True, his material is somewhat dated (though published in the U.K. in 2002,
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Clive Egleton, Author, Egleton, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-24102-5
The best spy novels function both within the real world and deep inside a convincing world all their own. This disappointing novel from the usually excellent Egleton (Blood Money) fails on both counts. Secret Intelligence Service agent Peter Ashton,
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Clive Egleton, Author, Egleton, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-312-18540-4
The latest in Egleton's Peter Ashton series (A Lethal Involvement, etc.) about hugger-mugger in and around Britain's SIS is rich in character and energetically plotted, quick-cutting back and forth between England, Russia, Finland and America. In...
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