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.
Helen Clark MacInnes Knihy
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.







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.
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".
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.
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?
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.
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.
I and My True Love
- 313 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
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.



