War Game (original 1976; edition 2012)

by Anthony Price, Dan Morgan (Narrator)

Series: 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.… (more)

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Title:	War Game
Authors:	Anthony Price
Other authors:	Dan Morgan (Narrator)
Info:	Audible Ltd (2012); unabridged download
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War Game by Anthony Price (1976)

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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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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Anthony Price	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
de Oro, Marie	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Stuart, Neil	Cover designer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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The Swine Brook was running red again, with the wounded and dying laid out along its banks under the dappled shadow of the willows.

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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.

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