Quiller Salamander
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Eager for a new assignment, Quiller accepts a rogue mission from a Bureau director whom he does not trust. He is sent to Cambodia, where people are still living in terror of a return to power of Pol Pot, the homicidal dictator responsible for the Killing Fields that had left over a million people dead. Quiller must infiltrate terrorist organizations to discover Pol Pot's plans to return to power. His control makes increasingly dangerous demands, and Quiller's survival chances in the hot, dangerous and mysterious country seem slim. New York Times bestselling author Sidney Sheldon described this novel as "A spine-tingling, teeth-clenching tale of suspense--Quiller at his best!"
"A spine-tingling, teeth-clenching tale of suspense--Quiller at his best!"
- New York Times bestselling author Sidney Sheldon, on QUILLER SALAMANDER
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:
"Tension in a novel is difficult to maintain at a pitch that actually creates a physical impact on the reader. A few of the best writers can do it, and among them is Adam Hall."
- London Times Literary Supplement
"Nobody writes espionage better than Adam Hall!"
- The New York Times
"When it comes to espionage fiction, Adam Hall has no peer."
- Eric Van Lustbader, author of "The Ninja"
"[Adam Hall] is the unchallenged king of the spy story."
- Buffalo News
"Adam Hall is an exemplary writer and one of the few in this genre to do his job with a poet's skill and fierce pride in the language."
- The Hong Kong Times
"Adam Hall writes the most exciting, original and authentic
espionage novels to be found on bookshelves today."
- The Banner
"Few writers handle action as excitingly as Hall..."
- The Houston Chronicle
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
In this latest Quiller espionage thriller, the eponymous agent, bored in London, takes on a rogue assignment-one the Bureau has not sanctioned but which is the private effort of one of the ``controls,'' the enigmatic Flockhart. The mission: discover what Pol Pot is up to in his ongoing efforts to return the Khmer Rouge to power. Arriving in Phnom Penh, Quiller finds himself attracted to his first contact, a female French photographer who harbors an important secret, and suspicious of his field director. Following a narrow escape from a Khmer Rouge encampment, Quiller uncovers plans for yet another Cambodian bloodbath, to be directed by General Kheng, the man who has become Pol Pot's successor. As events come to a head, Quiller must either compromise his principles to change a nation's fate or allow millions of lives to be sacrificed. Aficionados of this series will no doubt find much to enjoy here, though a tendency toward repetition continues to mark Hall's style (the frequent use of the term ``killing fields'' becomes particularly irksome).