Tag Archives: espionage

REVIEW: Agent in Place – Helen MacInnes

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Ela

(Titan Books 2013, originally published 1976) MacInnes, who was born in the UK and later moved to the US with her husband in 1937, wrote a number of spy thrillers between 1941’s Above Suspicion and 1984’s Ride A Pale Horse. … Continue reading →

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Novels by Alistair MacLean – part 1

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Ela

MacLean’s thrillers have often been filmed (perhaps most famous are The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, with their starry casts, though there are others, not so well known), and he sustained a long career with success – though … Continue reading →

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Kim – Rudyard Kipling

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Ela

A short review, since Kim is a classic, and surely has been read more often than most of the books I’ve reviewed here. I hardly need to summarise the story: Kim O’Hara, the orphaned son of a former soldier in … Continue reading →

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