The Most Dangerous Game
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
A thriller from the writer of "Blame the Dead", "Shooting Script", "Uncle Target", "Venus with Pistol", "Judas Country" and "Midnight Plus One".
Gavin Lyall Books
May 9, 1932 – January 18, 2003
Gavin Lyall crafted gripping thrillers known for their meticulous technical accuracy and sardonic wit. His narrative style, often in the first person, echoed the hard-boiled detective genre. Lyall was a versatile writer, transitioning between aviation thrillers, international crime stories, espionage novels, and semi-historical accounts of early British intelligence. His dedication to research infused his work with a unique authenticity and suspense.
The assassination attempt on the American president in London bore the hallmark of the KGB. But with Britain about to hold unilateral talks with the Russians over Berlin, why should Moscow Centre rock the boat? Major Harry Maxim smelled conspiracy. Trouble was, nobody wanted to believe him. So the Major goes hunting, taking with him his old mentor from Downing Street days, George Harbinger, and another colleague from former times, the not so old and much more attractive Agnes Algar, MIS. It's all highly unofficial. But that doesn't stop Maxim shooting and pistol-whipping his way from London to East Berlin via the Cotswolds, Eastbourne and Illinois, until he finally tracks down the Crocus List - a group of earnest patriots playing God and soldiers to open the country's eyes to the Russian menace...
Thriller - A novel which works up to beautiful tension and ingenuity in Vienna, reached via London, Amsterdam, Zurich and Venice.
Set in 1912, the earliest days of the present British Sceret Service. These four linked stories take the reader from Cork to Paris, Kiel to Budapest and the death-throes of the AustroHungarian Empire. By the author of "The Wrong Side of the Sky", "Venus with Pistol" and "Blame the Dead".
Judas Country
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
A lively wisecracking saga of two aging pilots battling their way through arms-smuggling and intrigue in Nicosia, Beirut and Jerusalem. This is a story of agents and double agents with the final loot being a fabulous gem-encrusted sword which once belonged to Richard the Lion Heart. It all begins when Roy Case lands his plane in Cyprus and finds that the charter company who employs him has gone broke and the airfield authorities are waiting to impound his aircraft.
Mitternacht plus eins
- 318 pages
- 12 hours of reading
DIE WELT IST UNTER DIKTATOREN AUFGETEILT Die Erzählungen der ausgehenden sechziger und beginnenden siebziger Jahre liegen unter dem Titel „10000 Lichtjahre von zu Haus\" vor (HEYNE-BUCH Nr. 06/65). In diesem Band sind die Erzählungen der mittleren und späteren siebziger Jahre zusammengefaßt, darunter die berühmten Geschichten: HOUSTON, HOUSTON, BITTE MELDEN! (Hugo GernsbackAward 1976) IM RAUCH STIEG EWIG AUF EIN FLÜCHTIGES SEINSGEFÜHL DER PSYCHOLOGE, DER KEINE RATTEN QUÄLEN WOLLTE Mit einem Vorwort von Ursula K. Le Guin James Tiptree jr., unter diesem Pseudonym publizierte Alice Sheldon (1915-1987) ein Jahrzehnt lang aufsehenerregende Stories, die wiederholt Preise gewannen, mit denen diese geheimnisumwitterte Gestalt zu so etwas wie einer Kultfigur der SF-Szene der siebziger Jahre wurde. Deutsche Erstausgabe Science Fiction Contents: Your Haploid Heart (1969) And So On, and So On (1971) Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (1974) A Momentary Taste of Being (1975) Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1976) The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats (1976) She Waits for All Men Born (1976)
