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Peter Ashton, former SIS agent, is running for his life in this thriller about the secretive world of espionage.Tags
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The good thriller with a small mistakes spreadging through the text like worms just about any time author gets to rescribe something related to Russia/Soviet Union. Which is about a quarter of the book.
Being the curious and attentive native of the country, I cannot stand the long description of "house arrest" (the unexistent pinishment in this country), the repeated address of "124 Gorky Street four hundred yards from Marx Prospect" (there are just a few streets with more than 100 house numbers in the whole city, and the place described is really in the first dozen), the same story about "Petrovski Avenue 236" (in addition to numbering, it is and always was Boulevard rather than Avenue), $400 for the tire of the Shkoda car (more like show more $100 at the time described), Tven instead of Tver as a geographical name, and the same fate for Yaroslavi instead of Yaroslavl.
It is like a small nails slightly above the surface which stop your otherwise smooth movement toward the end of the book... show less
Being the curious and attentive native of the country, I cannot stand the long description of "house arrest" (the unexistent pinishment in this country), the repeated address of "124 Gorky Street four hundred yards from Marx Prospect" (there are just a few streets with more than 100 house numbers in the whole city, and the place described is really in the first dozen), the same story about "Petrovski Avenue 236" (in addition to numbering, it is and always was Boulevard rather than Avenue), $400 for the tire of the Shkoda car (more like show more $100 at the time described), Tven instead of Tver as a geographical name, and the same fate for Yaroslavi instead of Yaroslavl.
It is like a small nails slightly above the surface which stop your otherwise smooth movement toward the end of the book... show less
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Espionage thriller writer Clive (Frederick William) Egleton was born on November 25, 1927 and died in 2006. Egleton was a Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army and was also involved in intelligence missions in Cyprus, the Persian Gulf, and East Africa. His espionage thrillers include Seven Days to a Killing, A Killing in Moscow and Blood Money. show more His novel Seven Days to a Killing was filmed as The Black Windmill, starring Michael Caine. Escape to Athena is a novelization of the 1979 movie of the same name. Egleton also wrote under the names of Patrick Blake and John Tarrant. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 2001
- People/Characters
- Peter Ashton
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- 20
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- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 9
