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Quiller's latest adventure finds the Bureau's top intelligence agent in a desperate manhunt behind the Iron Curtin. A renegade agent has his finger on the trigger for the ultimate assassination. If Quiller fails to stop him, the results could explode into World War III.Tags
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Quiller must find and rescue a British agent from his KGB captors before the prisoner gives up his group of spies.
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30 Works 3,333 Members
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- Canonical title
- The Scorpion Signal
- Original title
- The Scorpion Signal
- Original publication date
- 1980
- People/Characters
- Quiller; Croder; Bracken; Shapiro
- Important places
- Moscow, USSR
- Dedication
- For Chris Holmes
- First words
- I turned again, wheeling into the wind with the edge of the cliff a hundred feet below me.
- Quotations
- There's usually something a bit touched about the field directors: look at Ferris, always strangling mice.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I got onto my feet and a door came open, and I heard Bracken calling to me to get in.
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- This novel marks the first use of a named contemporaneous public figure (Leonid Brezhnev) in the Quiller series.
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- Members
- 135
- Popularity
- 242,027
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.85)
- Languages
- Dutch, English, Finnish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 6
