Quiller Meridian
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3.2 • 5 Ratings
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
A mission is blown in Bucharast: London's Bureau agent is killed and his Russian contact fled before priceless information could be delivered. Quiller is called in to track down the contact and proceed with the mission, code name Meridian. From the Siberian Express to the northern city of Novosibirsk, Quiller must follow increasingly elusive links to uncover the secret that, if unexposed, will destroy world stability and countless lives.
"Quiller's voice is knowing and insouciant, deftly turning plot points with razor-sharp characterizations and keeping readers on the edges of their seats"
- Publishers Weekly on QUILLER MERIDIAN
Praise for the QUILLER Series:
"For fans and students of the genre, it's a must … pure adrenaline!"
- The Chicago Times
"Hall has been turning out Quiller novels, each one a winner, for years. Over the years, the character has grown in eccentricity, depth and appeal."
- The Chicago Tribune
"Hall has created a new form: the spy thriller that is all action and yet cerebral, a writing feat few can match … Hall delivers!"
- The Boston Globe
"Riveting and taut … you won't be disappointed!"
- The Denver Post
"Quiller is one of suspense literature's great secret agents!"
- The Houston Chronicle
"Thrilling."
- The Los Angeles Times
"They don't get any tougher or more intelligent than the Quiller tales."
- The Rocky Mountain News
"Quiller is by now a primary reflex."
- Kirkus Reviews
"Tense, intelligent, harsh, surprising..."
- The New York Times
(Quiller is) "the greatest survival expert among contemporary secret agents."
- The New York Times
"Stunningly well done, tense, elliptical, without a misplaced word."
- The New York Republic
"Espionage at its best!"
- The London Times
"Breathless entertainment!"
- The Associated Press
"White-hot intensity."
- The Washington Post
Praise for ADAM HALL:
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- London Times Literary Supplement
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- The New York Times
"When it comes to espionage fiction, Adam Hall has no peer."
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"Adam Hall writes the most exciting, original and authentic
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about the author:
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, l995.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hero of 16 earlier adventures ( Quiller Solitaire , et al.), the eponymous British agent can still be depended on for quick thinking and unflinching derring-do. Here, his mettle is put to the test in the former Soviet Union when he is called in to salvage Operation Meridian. Quiller travels from Rome to Bucharest to Moscow trailing a skittish Russian contact, who then books himself on the Rossiya (the Trans-Siberian Express), bound for Vladivostok. Quiller entrains too, and the book plunges into almost nonstop action. During the course of the narrative, Quiller is shot at, survives a car crash and a train wreck, and battles the Russian militia, the violent Stalinist Podpolia underground and a rogue ex-KGB agent who is fond of bombs. The final confrontation takes place in Novosibirsk with leaders of the Podpolia , who are plotting a coup with the Chinese and the rogue bomber. As ever, narrator Quiller's voice is knowing and insouciant, deftly turning plot points with razor-sharp characterizations and keeping readers on the edges of their seats. The subtleties of the spy trade--and the inadequacies of British intelligence--are nicely limned, as is life in the new Russia. Adam Hall is the pseudonym of Elleston Trevor ( Deathwatch ).
