My five favourite espionage novels
Something completely different to the usual fare this time: I’ve picked my five favourite spy novels for the Spybrary podcast. … Read the full post »
Anthony Price
Read about the award-winning author Anthony Price, best known for his series of espionage novels featuring Dr. David Audley.
The curiously forgotten: Eugene Burdick, FWS Craig and Anthony Price
Other than all featuring in multiple places on my bookshelves at home, what brings the three of them together? … Read the full post »
The Alamut Ambush: another great Anthony Price novel, also available as an audio book
The Alamut Ambush is one of the early volumes in Anthony Price’s series of espionage thrillers featuring David Audley. … Read the full post »
For the Good of the State by Anthony Price
Starting with a deliciously and uncompromisingly convoluted discussion between two characters which leaves the reader struggling to work out what it all means, and building up to a violent confrontation in a bleak stretch of British countryside, For the Good of the State is bursting with examples of Anthony Price at his best. … Read the full post »
The Hour of the Donkey: Anthony Price’s expert portrayal of a green, scared soldier at war
In The Hour of the Donkey, Anthony Price has a great eye for the telling details which bring home the horrors of war. … Read the full post »
A Prospect of Vengeance: Anthony Price very cleverly revisits an earlier plot and gives it a whole new perspective
With A Prospect of Vengeance, Anthony Price sets up a pair of investigative journalists to poke around the events he’d first written about many years earlier in Tomorrow’s Ghost. … Read the full post »
Tomorrow’s Ghost by Anthony Price: clever, clever and clever
Full of Anthony Price’s trademark complicated plots and intense dialogue, Tomorrow’s Ghost is another highly enjoyable espionage thriller. … Read the full post »
The ’44 Vintage by Anthony Price
Continuing Anthony Price’s pattern of rotating around the character through whose eyes the story is told, this time it’s back to Jack Butler. … Read the full post »
Our Man in Camelot: quintessential Anthony Price
Anthony Price’s thriller Our Man in Camelot is quintessential Price, as if all his other David Audley novels had been boiled down into one concentrated example. … Read the full post »
War Game by Anthony Price: now available as an audio download
David Audley is a British spy with a penchant for history and in this book sets out to investigate a suspected far-left rabble rouser. … Read the full post »