War Game
by Anthony Price
Audley/Butler: Publication order (7), David Audley / Jack Butler: Chronological Order (1975)
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By the CWA Gold Dagger award-winning author of Other Paths to Glory In the rural peace of modern England a war game recreates the slaughter of the Civil War. But when the battle ends, a real corpse is left it the Swine Brook; and an aristocratic but impoverished revolutionary claims to have found a cache of 'Cromwell's Gold'. When David Audley is called in, seventeenth-century secrets and the deadly game of modern espionage clash in a brilliantly intricate thriller of bluff and counter-bluff.Tags
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Touted at one time as a possible rival to John Le Carre, I find this one of Mr. Price's potboiler works. While his prose is readable, I feel he hasn't done much in the field of Character development in this simple tale of a simple-minded Russian Pawn facing off with a bunch of very stuffy Tories. Go read "The Little Drummer Girl" for a much better time.
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- Original publication date
- 1976
- People/Characters
- David Audley; Jack Butler; Paul Mitchell; Frances Fitzgibbon
- Dedication
- For
Margaret and Brian Aldiss - First words
- The Swine Brook was running red again, with the wounded and dying laid out along its banks under the dappled shadow of the willows.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"So I gave him his chance, Fred. That's all. And he took it."
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- English, German
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