Wrong and Wright

by Adam Hall

Alan Wright is a successful, seasoned hit man. He operates with a strict set of rules. His jobs come from a man he has never met, a voice on the phone. After years of operating from one job to the next, Wright finds that he is ready to move on, to attempt to make something more of himself and to allow happiness to be become a part of his life.This desire, and the decision that ensues, begins an ugly chain of events whereby Wright, by the virtue of the man that he is, slowly and inexorably pulls himself further and further away from the life he wants, miring deeper into the only life he has known, and the one he would love to leave behind.

238 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2013

About the author

Author also wrote as Elleston Trevor.

Author Trevor Dudley-Smith was born in Kent, England on February 17, 1920. He attended Yardley Court Preparatory School and Sevenoaks School. During World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force as a flight engineer. After the war, he started writing full-time. He lived in Spain and France before moving to the United States and settling in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1946 he used the pseudonym Elleston Trevor for a non-mystery book, and later made it his legal name. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Roger Fitzalan, Howard North, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith, and Lesley Stone. Even though he wrote thrillers, mysteries, plays, juvenile novels, and short stories, his best-known works are The Flight of the Phoenix written as Elleston Trevor and the series about British secret agent Quiller written as Adam Hall. In 1965, he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award by Mystery Writers of America and the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for The Quiller Memorandum. This book was made into a 1967 movie starring George Segal and Alec Guinness. He died of cancer on July 21, 1995.