Brian Freemantle
Author of Charlie M
About the Author
Brian Freemantle was born in Southampton, England on June 10, 1936. He became a journalist and worked for four national newspapers. While the foreign editor of the Daily Mail in 1975, he organized the rescue mission to airlift 100 orphans from Saigon days before it fell to the communist north. Soon show more afterward, he left journalism to become a full-time author. He has written over 80 books including the Charlie Muffin series, the Cowley and Danilov Thriller series, and 5 non-fiction books. He has also written under the pen names of John Maxwell, Jonathan Evans, Jack Winchester and Harry Asher. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
Also uses the pen names Jonathan Evans, John Maxwell, and Jack Winchester.
Series
Works by Brian Freemantle
The Charlie Muffin Thrillers Volume One: Charlie M, Here Comes Charlie M, and The Inscrutable Charlie Muffin (1997) 15 copies
The Charlie Muffin Thrillers Volume Two: Charlie Muffin U.S.A., Madrigal for Charlie Muffin, The Blind Run, and See Charlie Run (2018) 5 copies
The Charlie Muffin Thrillers Volume Three: The Run Around, Comrade Charlie, Charlie’s Apprentice, and Bomb Grade (2018) 4 copies
Stalked 1 copy
T'es pas timbré 1 copy
Farvel til en gammel ven 1 copy
sayonara Charlie Muffin 1 copy
Ultima missione 1 copy
tanti baci dal Cremlino 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Freemantle, Brian
- Other names
- Maxwell, John
Evans, Jonathan
Winchester, Jack
Gant, Richard - Birthdate
- 1936-06-10
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- editor (newspaper)
writer
author
spy novelist - Short biography
- Brian Freemantle is one of Britain's best writers of espionage thrillers. He is a former foreign editor of the Daily Mail and the Daily Express.
- Nationality
- UK
- Places of residence
- Southhampton, Hampshire, England, UK
- Disambiguation notice
- Also uses the pen names Jonathan Evans, John Maxwell, and Jack Winchester.
- Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
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Spy novels used to be as common as vampire romances today. This one stays in my memory because of its atypical hero. English spies used to be Oxbridge, here we have a grammar school boy who outwits his alleged social superiors at every turn.
ETA: re-reading this after nearly 40 years I notice some slight stylistic defects, but the plot remains a stellar example of how to play two ends against the middle.
ETA: re-reading this after nearly 40 years I notice some slight stylistic defects, but the plot remains a stellar example of how to play two ends against the middle.
I've never ever read anything by Brian Freemantle. A couple weeke ago I saw the movie "Charlie Muffin" with David Hemmings, and I just got plain curious. I just had to get my hands on the book. When I finally did, I almost read it in just one sitting. Sometimes I just burst out laughing. The book is tremendously funny. There's a scene where Charlie takes off his socks complaining that his feet are wet. What ensues is out-and-out hilarious. I can't tell the rest without spoilers.
If Lt. show more Columbo had been a spy, he would have been Charlie Muffin... I'm planning on reading the entire series, starting immediately with "Here Comes Charlie M." show less
If Lt. show more Columbo had been a spy, he would have been Charlie Muffin... I'm planning on reading the entire series, starting immediately with "Here Comes Charlie M." show less
The endless complaining about British social class unfairness gets tedious... right until the end. Absolutely full marks for going there, and it leaves me curious as to how it leads into a a long-running series. Never seen a writer so in love with adjectives before, either.
Another good Charlie Muffin story by Brian Freemantle. As usual, he keeps you guessing what is going on among the various characters in the story. This one has a very interesting and intricate double cross taking place throughout the story. Charlie Muffin is the victim in the double cross that is taking place. Even after completing the book, the effects of the double cross is still in place for the next novel.
Mr. Freemantle's stories are more of the old time spy thriller and do not rely show more fast action and lots of gun play. The stories are similar to the George Smiley series by John LeCarre. The character development is excellent and the plot has more than enough twists and turns to keep you interested in the story. show less
Mr. Freemantle's stories are more of the old time spy thriller and do not rely show more fast action and lots of gun play. The stories are similar to the George Smiley series by John LeCarre. The character development is excellent and the plot has more than enough twists and turns to keep you interested in the story. show less
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