Elleston Trevor’s novels, plays, and short stories range from light, witty mysteries to dramas, usually about ordinary individuals experiencing extraordinary situations. To cover a wide diversity of subject matter Elleston wrote under various pseudonyms: Adam Hall, Trevor Burgess, Roger Fitzalan, Simon Rattray, Mansell Black, Caesar Smith, Howard North, Warwick Scott, and even a woman’s name, Leslie Stone. Elleston is best known for his classic, The Flight of the Phoenix, and for his nineteen novels about a spy named Quiller. In 1966, The Quiller Memorandum won the Edgar award for the best mystery of the year. The Flight of the Phoenix and Quiller Memorandum both became major motion pictures. The author was born Trevor Dudley Smith in London on February 17, 1920. He died in Scottsdale, Arizona, on July 21, 1995.
Quiller: The Sinkiang Executive
by Adam Hall
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BN ID:
2940013418172
- Publisher: Spectrum Literary Agency, Inc.
- Publication date: 09/18/2011
- Series: Quiller , #8
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Sales rank: 247,400
- File size: 375 KB
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A rash act by Quiller results in a threatened dismissal from the secret agency he works for -- unless he takes on a near-suicidal mission to fly a small plane into Russia that might be shot down at any moment. Hard-edged adventure and deadly confrontations reveal the darker side of Quiller's work.
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