Quiller Solitaire

by Adam Hall

Overview

Quiller's survival skills have never been so crucial as in this eerily prophetic mission torn from today's headlines. Standing over the smoldering corpse of the agent he had sworn to protect, Quiller vows to make things right. The killer's trail leads to a terrorist network targeting the next American flight out of Berlin. But what are their plans for this flight, and why are they trying so desperately to get their hands on a nuclear weapon...?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932100167
Publisher:	BenBella Books, Inc.
Publication date:	07/11/2004
Series:	Quiller
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	296
Sales rank:	989,286
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Adam Hall (1920-1995) was the pseudonym of British writer Elleston Trevor. He was the creator of the supremely successful Quiller novels. Born in London, he and his family lived on the French Riviera for many years before moving to Arizona. Hall was awarded the Edgar(R) Award for The Quiller Memorandum.

Editorial Reviews

""Chilling and fascinating...a taut, sophisticated thriller...a sure-fire pleaser for espionage fans!"

From the Publisher

Quiller, one of the last and best of espionage fiction's secret agents to have prowled the Cold War back alleys over the past quarter century, will thrill fans again with this, his 16th adventure. When a fellow agent who has called upon him for protection is murdered before his eyes, an enraged and embarrassed Quiller pressures his superiors into giving him the dead man's assignment to investigate the murder of a British cultural attache in Berlin. The murder is apparently tied to former East German national Dieter Klaus, a madman who wants to gain attention for his terrorist splinter group. Accompanied by the attache's oddly subservient widow, Quiller goes to Berlin and soon manages to infiltrate Klaus's inner circle. There he is met with an extraordinary surprise, especially startling to the reader for the almost offhand way in which it is presented (something of a Hall trademark). Klaus's plan is not fully revealed until the end, when Quiller must take a final, almost certainly suicidal step to save the day. This is a smashing entry in an always entertaining series. (Apr.)

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