Guilty Bonds
by William Le Queux
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"In Guilty Bonds" by William Le Queux, newly rich Frank Burgoyne falls in love with a Russian spy only to become involved in a massive, international plot concerning a series of murders. Excerpt: "Come, have another hand, Burgoyne." "I'll have my revenge tomorrow, old fellow," I replied. "Why not tonight?" "It's past two, and I have a long walk home, remember." "Very well; as you wish."Tags
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Frank Burgoyne,our hero,is catapulted into a mysterious plot when he stumbled across the murder of an unknown woman. She is discovered stabbed and with a strange seal pinned to her. This is the latest in a series of similar killings,all with this same seal upon the victims. Burgoyne later meets (and needless to say falls in love with) a young Russian woman,Vera Seroff. She asks him to do her a great favour (a very great favour I would have said) of taking a sealed box from London to St.Petersburg,and there to hand it to someone who would meet him there. Off he goes,and from there on,his troubles begin firstly being arrested in Russia and being thrown into an underground cell. Much happens before he finally achieves happiness at the end show more of the book. show less
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William Le Queux (1864-1927) was an extraordinarily prolific author. His writing career began in 1893 and his production of four or five novels a year was sustained unstintingly until his death. He led a life rich in social climbing and self-fantasy. He made a distinctive contribution not only to the highly charged atmosphere of pre-war Britain, show more but also to the emerging genre of spy fiction. Indeed Le Queux helped establish a narrative device that was to become extremely important in having spy fiction accepted by its burgeoning audience. This device was 'faction'; an authorial insistence that the spy novel dealt, in thinly disguised fashion, with real events, real characters, real conspiracies Nicholas Hiley is Head of Information at the British Universities Film and Video Council show less
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