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Helen Clark MacInnes

    7. říjen 1907 – 30. září 1985

    Helen MacInnesová byla skotsko-americká autorka špionážních románů, jejíž díla se ponořila do spletitých světů intrik a mezinárodního napětí. Její psaní vynikalo pečlivým výzkumem a schopností vtáhnout čtenáře do napínavých zápletek. MacInnesová mistrně proplétala napínavé děje s psychologickým portrétem postav. Její romány zkoumaly témata zrady, loajality a morálních dilemat v globálním kontextu.

    Helen Clark MacInnes
    Neither Five Nor Three
    The Venetian Affair
    The Unconquerable
    Horizon
    The Hidden Target
    Poslání v Bretani
    • Napínavý příběh prvních dnů 2. svět. války. Čtenář s napětím sleduje líčení dramatického příchodu špiona do rodiny, do prostředí malé bretaňské vesničky, kde má vystupovat jako jeden její obyvatel, zajatý v Anglii. Díky veliké podobě obou se mu podaří oklamat vesničany i přátele, jen matka a milenka sedláka, jehož místo zaujímá, prohlédnou jeho přestrojení. Přesto se však stanou jeho spojenkyněmi a spolubojovnicemi, když v něm najdou stejného antifašistu jako jsou samy. Kniha je po literární stránce místy poněkud naivní, je však psána s velkou dávkou osobního prožitku.

      Poslání v Bretani
    • For Nina, the trip around the world was the holiday of a lifetime. Her new friends were lively students but terrorism was the only degree attractive James Kiley was pursuing.

      The Hidden Target
      5,0
    • Horizon

      • 192 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení

      A thriller by the author of "North from Rome", "Prelude to Terror", "Snare of the Hunter", "Ride a Pale Horse", "Unconquerable" and "Message from Malaga".

      Horizon
      4,0
    • The Unconquerable

      • 511 stránek
      • 18 hodin čtení

      "A master of the suspense novel." THE BOSTON GLOBE It began very innocently. A holiday visit to Poland. But before enojoying the sights and sounds of this fascinating new place, happiness took a violent turn and became a nightmare of terror...when suddenly you're mistaken for a Nazi spy, and to save your life, you have to prove you are innocent.

      The Unconquerable
      4,1
    • A game of espionage ... Fenner burned Rosenfeld's message, reminding himself wryly that he was behaving in the very best tradition. This was a game not too difficult to learn, he thought. A game? A game in deadly earnest. A vacation in Venice that was grim business. A girl constantly beside him who wasn't his. How the hell had he walked into this upside-down world? Where, he wondered suddenly, would Venice lead?

      The Venetian Affair
      3,5
    • To the accompaniment of flamenco guitars, a drama of espionage begins in a cafe courtyard in Malaga. For Ian Ferrier, on a vacation visit to his old friend Jeff Reid, it means the startling discovery that Reid is more than just a wine exporter...he is in fact a CIA agent who smuggles Cuban refugees into Spain. When a more important refugee--a high-ranking, defecting KGB agent--arrives, the drama intensifies. Ferrier finds himself alone and responsible for the defector's safety.

      Message from Málaga
      3,7
    • Prelude to Terror

      • 352 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení

      The scene is Vienna, where an American art expert, Colin Grant, has been dispatched by a Texas millionaire to buy a painting by the Dutch master Ruysdael. He is instructed to get the painting "at any cost" but to keep his employer's name a secret. This seemingly simple assignment turns into a nightmare for Grant as he finds himself in the center of a conspiracy to unleash bloody international terrorism The art world meets cloak-and-dagger intrigue in this Cold War thriller. A triumph of pacing from a veteran of the genre.

      Prelude to Terror
      3,6
    • When Igor Insarov, KGB agent, meets an Auschwitz survivor who can identify him as an SS Colonel, he reacts with savage speed - within a day, his former victim is dead.

      The Double Image
      3,0