The Old Vengeful (Crime Masterworks)

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2003
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When David Audley, that most subtle of Intelligence chiefs, sends his insubordinate protege Paul Mitchell off to investigate a KGB operation by researching a long-forgotten naval engagement off France in 1812, it doesn't look to Mitchell as if it will lead anywhere. But the fate of the crew of the Vengeful has more than a few surprises in store for Mitchell and suddenly the past throws a dazzling and very dangerous light on the present.

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When David Audley, that most subtle of Intelligence chiefs, sends his insubordinate protege Paul Mitchell off to investigate a KGB operation by researching a long-forgotten naval engagement off France in 1812, it doesn't look to Mitchell as if it will lead anywhere. But the fate of the crew of the Vengeful has more than a few surprises in store for Mitchell and suddenly the past throws a dazzling and very dangerous light on the present.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 21 Aug 2003
ISBN 10: 0752852523
ISBN 13: 9780752852522
Book Overview: 'Mr Price blends scholarship with worldliness, flattering us to bits' The Sunday Times 'Thriller writing at its most intelligent and subtle' Daily Telegraph 'One of our most intelligent crime writers' Marghanita Laski 'Highly intelligent and extremely good...Devilishly ingenious' The Times Literary Supplement 'One can hardly over-praise Price' Patrick Cosgrave

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'Impeccably written, it is a very British book, with country houses in the Cotswolds and well-behaved intelligentsia as the characters.'TANGLED WEB

Author Bio

Born in Hertfordshire in 1928, Price was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and Oxford. His long career in journalism culminated in the Editorship of the Oxford Times. His 1970 debut, The Labyrinth Makers, won the CWA Silver Dagger; his hero, Dr David Audley, historian and spy, featured in this and 18 subsequent novels.