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Quiller #10
Pekin Target
In Peking ("Pekin" in British usage) the crowds gather for the funeral of the Chinese Premier. Quiller reports "The British delegates formed a short line along the side of the catafalque as their leader placed the Queen's wreath carefully against it; then suddenly the sky was filled with flowers and the bloodied body of the Secretary of State was hurled against me by the blast as the coffin exploded.""Quiller takes over where Bond left off." (Bookseller)
284 pages, Paperback
First published October 29, 1981
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Adam Hall
157 books99 followersAuthor 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.
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.
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November 13, 2025
Okay, this is partly on me because I frankly read this too close on the heels of the far superior Quiller Salamander (penultimate entry in Hall's 19-book series); but I needed a disposable paperback I could carry in my back pocket while I scoot around on a walker for a coupla weeks — (black ice; wrong shoes) — and this was handy. But still, this was subjectively the worst and laziest of the Quiller books I've read so far — which I have to believe Hall himself also realized, since he then took a 4-year break before basically relaunching his most famous character in the "Quiller"-titled books that he wrote from 1985 to his death (Quiller, Quiller's Run, Quiller KGB, etc.).
I've mentioned before that Hall's Far East-based stories lack local color, but in Peking he not only includes even less than usual, but much of what he has is just wrong. Start with the cover — that's a Japanese katana spearing the target, a sword that any self-respecting Chinese would never use, based on their memories of katana-based atrocities during WWII. His stereotypical main Chinese villain is also described inappropriately as wearing a kimono and using "ninja weapons" (again Japanese); and Hall also repeatedly refers to Chinese writing as either "hieroglyphs" or "letters," rather than the correct "characters." Even more surprising, he gets Quiller's own history wrong, noting several times that this is only his second time dealing with "Asiatics" (who unlike more civilized Westerners "kill readily"); whereas by my reckoning this should be his third, having been both in Bangkok in The Ninth Directive and Hong Kong in The Mandarin Cypher, (unless somehow Thais don't count as "Asiatics").
Other stereotypes abound as well. His Chinese bad guy has vast powers of ki, which he uses to remotely hurl Quiller into walls and mess with his mind; while the Russian baddie works for a sinister organization that sounds like something right out of James Bond or Man from U.N.C.L.E.: "Department V…the most secret arm of Soviet operations, responsible for sabotage, kidnapping, political assassination and similar bloodletting operations designed to create chaos in foreign governments at times of internal crisis…" And okay, just writing this I do realize it sounds a lot like the past five years of Vladimir Putin; but it's still almost identical to both SPECTRE (the "Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion"), and THRUSH ("Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity").
This book is also very Bond-ish in that even more than usual, Quiller is frankly a terrible spy — he's just a very good driver (even though his vehicles always end up either exploding or landing in water) and martial artist, who — exactly like James Bond — at the end of the day is just barely better at escaping than he is at getting caught. (Indeed, at the end of this book, he only manages to escape because a guard he had previously pissed off sneaks into his cell and tries unsuccessfully to kill him; otherwise, ol' Q would have been well and truly fucked).
I do have one more Asia-based Quiller on my shelf — the above-mentioned Ninth Directive — but I'm gonna give both Quiller and Hall a good cooling off period so that I come back with a more objective attitude.
I've mentioned before that Hall's Far East-based stories lack local color, but in Peking he not only includes even less than usual, but much of what he has is just wrong. Start with the cover — that's a Japanese katana spearing the target, a sword that any self-respecting Chinese would never use, based on their memories of katana-based atrocities during WWII. His stereotypical main Chinese villain is also described inappropriately as wearing a kimono and using "ninja weapons" (again Japanese); and Hall also repeatedly refers to Chinese writing as either "hieroglyphs" or "letters," rather than the correct "characters." Even more surprising, he gets Quiller's own history wrong, noting several times that this is only his second time dealing with "Asiatics" (who unlike more civilized Westerners "kill readily"); whereas by my reckoning this should be his third, having been both in Bangkok in The Ninth Directive and Hong Kong in The Mandarin Cypher, (unless somehow Thais don't count as "Asiatics").
Other stereotypes abound as well. His Chinese bad guy has vast powers of ki, which he uses to remotely hurl Quiller into walls and mess with his mind; while the Russian baddie works for a sinister organization that sounds like something right out of James Bond or Man from U.N.C.L.E.: "Department V…the most secret arm of Soviet operations, responsible for sabotage, kidnapping, political assassination and similar bloodletting operations designed to create chaos in foreign governments at times of internal crisis…" And okay, just writing this I do realize it sounds a lot like the past five years of Vladimir Putin; but it's still almost identical to both SPECTRE (the "Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion"), and THRUSH ("Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity").
This book is also very Bond-ish in that even more than usual, Quiller is frankly a terrible spy — he's just a very good driver (even though his vehicles always end up either exploding or landing in water) and martial artist, who — exactly like James Bond — at the end of the day is just barely better at escaping than he is at getting caught. (Indeed, at the end of this book, he only manages to escape because a guard he had previously pissed off sneaks into his cell and tries unsuccessfully to kill him; otherwise, ol' Q would have been well and truly fucked).
I do have one more Asia-based Quiller on my shelf — the above-mentioned Ninth Directive — but I'm gonna give both Quiller and Hall a good cooling off period so that I come back with a more objective attitude.
December 19, 2015
Quiller in Peking and South Korea, pitted against a triad chieftain. Quickly sets new records for the number of times Quiller's cover is blown and for attempts on his life. There is a seriously creepy sex scene. Not one of the best of the Quiller series, maybe a 3.7 rounded up to a 4.
October 28, 2018
When you read Elleston Trevor's Quiller series, after two or three novels your expected standard is simple: perfection. Trevor does everything so well (openings, chapter endings, pace, plot, spycraft, dialogue, prose, intrigue), you come to expect him to do it every time, which is almost impossible.
This book delivers. With the exception of the ending, which is weak, the book is perfect. It's all here ... mystery openings, startling cliffhangers, oblique dialogue, the thriller "clock," not to mention Trevor's superb writing. His sprinkling of assonance/consonance seasoning is so good throughout that I wrote an article (to be posted later) comparing his writing to Flaubert's (using sample sentences from "The Peking Target" and Flaubert's "Madame Bovary"). In short, Trevor bests the Frenchman, and easily.
If you're a fan of the Quiller series (as every thriller reader should be!), this one ranks only behind "The Kobra Manifesto," which is essentially a perfect book. Yes, it's even better than Trevor's most famous work, "The Quiller Memorandum."
This book delivers. With the exception of the ending, which is weak, the book is perfect. It's all here ... mystery openings, startling cliffhangers, oblique dialogue, the thriller "clock," not to mention Trevor's superb writing. His sprinkling of assonance/consonance seasoning is so good throughout that I wrote an article (to be posted later) comparing his writing to Flaubert's (using sample sentences from "The Peking Target" and Flaubert's "Madame Bovary"). In short, Trevor bests the Frenchman, and easily.
If you're a fan of the Quiller series (as every thriller reader should be!), this one ranks only behind "The Kobra Manifesto," which is essentially a perfect book. Yes, it's even better than Trevor's most famous work, "The Quiller Memorandum."
August 20, 2016
Quiller up against an enemy with almost supernatural power, good fun except most of the action after the parachute drop is not terribly believable.
January 28, 2019
Quiller gets pushed into a dangerous mission following the death of another agent without adequate preparation and becomes a target himself immediately. (One of attacks, a car chase in Seoul and its followup in the Han River is one of the best chases in spy literature. Another attack-and-escape sequence that takes place outside a surrounded building is equally good.) The mission's task—to penetrate a group that has killed two Western leaders— takes him from Peking to Seoul to western China, and he fights for his life, and takes life on the other side, every step (or jump ) of the way.
The 19 Quiller books are solid reading—in this case rereading—and Hall's field executive lives on the edge (needs to live on the edge) better than anyone else in the literature. Asked by his director in the field (Ferris, a wonderful character who goes out of his way to kill insects and who is rumored by field executives to strangle mice) about where his home is, Quiller replies "the edge."
Perhaps the best sequence in the book involves Quiller's ostensible willingness to pass disinformation on to his control in return for his lfe, temporarily anyway. A Russian colonel gives his desired message to a Chinese terrorist, who passes it on to Quiller (who speaks Russian but doesn't reveal that fact). The terrorist, whose son is held by the KGB, knows that Quiller is willing to tell his director to retrieve the kidnapped son, and to interfere with the terrorist's mission to further the Russian plan by means of additional assassinations. The transformation of the message is exciting, because the Russian will have both Q and the terrorist killed if he suspects the truth, so Q's use of what he calls "Speech code" is clever.
It has been about fifteen years since the last of the Quller books ("Quiller Balalaika") appeared. I reread a couple of the series each year to reacquaint myself with a master of the trade.
The 19 Quiller books are solid reading—in this case rereading—and Hall's field executive lives on the edge (needs to live on the edge) better than anyone else in the literature. Asked by his director in the field (Ferris, a wonderful character who goes out of his way to kill insects and who is rumored by field executives to strangle mice) about where his home is, Quiller replies "the edge."
Perhaps the best sequence in the book involves Quiller's ostensible willingness to pass disinformation on to his control in return for his lfe, temporarily anyway. A Russian colonel gives his desired message to a Chinese terrorist, who passes it on to Quiller (who speaks Russian but doesn't reveal that fact). The terrorist, whose son is held by the KGB, knows that Quiller is willing to tell his director to retrieve the kidnapped son, and to interfere with the terrorist's mission to further the Russian plan by means of additional assassinations. The transformation of the message is exciting, because the Russian will have both Q and the terrorist killed if he suspects the truth, so Q's use of what he calls "Speech code" is clever.
It has been about fifteen years since the last of the Quller books ("Quiller Balalaika") appeared. I reread a couple of the series each year to reacquaint myself with a master of the trade.
October 7, 2021
After the over-the-top novel
Chant
, I was in the mood for something more realistic and better written, but with many of the same elements: 1980s action, a sinister Eastern mystic, martial arts assassins, and an ultra-skilled Western shadow warrior who takes them on.
The Peking Target
, published in 1982, fit the bill nicely; it's the tenth installment in the brilliant Quiller series by Elleston Trevor (writing as Adam Hall).
As the story opens, "shadow executive" Quiller is watching a body being fished out of the Thames river, which we learn is that of a fellow Bureau operative who had just arrived from Peking with a most urgent and sensitive message for his superiors. Unfortunately, the agent was murdered on his way from the airport and his secret message died with him. Quiller himself is nearly killed when a car rams him as he's leaving the murder scene. It's apparent that something very sinister is going on in Peking, which someone is willing to kill agents on their home soil to protect. So the Bureau sends Quiller, still banged up from the hit attempt, to China to investigate.
The assassinations escalate dramatically after Quiller arrives in Peking under cover as a security man for the British delegation. The British Secretary of State is blown sky high right next to Quiller during the funeral of the Chinese premiere, his body absorbing the blast and saving the agent from serious injury. Then the American ambassador is taken out, and Quiller evades another murder attempt on the street—only his superior martial arts skill saving him from death at the hands of his skilled assailant. Two more agents are killed just before Quiller can get the information they had about the assassins, one found dead in the coils of his own pet boa constrictor. While all this is going on, Quiller learns that a mysterious figure named Tung Kuo-feng is involved—a Triad leader who commands a team of elite assassins but whose whereabouts is unknown. After the beautiful Li-fei is sent to kill Quiller, thinking that he killed her brother, a Triad assassin, Quiller learns that Tung is holed up in a former monastery on a mountain in a remote part of South Korea.
The novel shifts into overdrive for the final third as Quiller begins his set piece mission: to air-drop near the mountain before dawn, make his way stealthily to the monastery, infiltrate the grounds, take out Kuo-feng and get out without getting killed by his retinue of assassins. It's a tall order, but Quiller is the late 20th century British equivalent of a ninja, so if anyone can do it he can! The mission is further complicated by the assignment of a female guide who is a skydiving expert, mountaineer and fluent Korean speaker, as Quiller normally works alone. As usual with Quiller missions, things go sideways almost immediately and the executive is forced to improvise. Without providing too many spoilers, Quiller faces some brutal adversity but manages to get to the monastery, where he discovers that other world powers are involved who are using the assassinations to spread chaos for a nefarious geopolitical purpose.
This was probably the most fast-paced, action-packed Quiller installment I've read. Quiller is a real ninja in this one, who showcases his impressive range of skills: he kills men with his bare hands (he never carries a gun), evades pursuers by floating under debris on a river, air-drops into enemy territory by night, evades and ambushes a sniper, sends cleverly coded messages to deceive his captors, escapes a cell, sneaks around a well-guarded enemy compound, creates a diversionary explosion, flies a helicopter, and gets into an incredible mental battle with Kuo-fong in which the Triad leader showcases his impressive "ki" powers to try to control Quiller. Though never cartoonish, this one is slightly over the top by Trevor's standards. I suspect he was influenced by the success of Eric van Lustbader's blockbuster 1980 novel The Ninja and similar works of that era, and decided to turn up the ninja elements in this one. There was something in the zeitgeist of the early 1980s that produced a lot of great spy/action/ninja thrillers, and this is another one to add to the list. Great read.
Get a copy of The Peking Target here.
As the story opens, "shadow executive" Quiller is watching a body being fished out of the Thames river, which we learn is that of a fellow Bureau operative who had just arrived from Peking with a most urgent and sensitive message for his superiors. Unfortunately, the agent was murdered on his way from the airport and his secret message died with him. Quiller himself is nearly killed when a car rams him as he's leaving the murder scene. It's apparent that something very sinister is going on in Peking, which someone is willing to kill agents on their home soil to protect. So the Bureau sends Quiller, still banged up from the hit attempt, to China to investigate.
The assassinations escalate dramatically after Quiller arrives in Peking under cover as a security man for the British delegation. The British Secretary of State is blown sky high right next to Quiller during the funeral of the Chinese premiere, his body absorbing the blast and saving the agent from serious injury. Then the American ambassador is taken out, and Quiller evades another murder attempt on the street—only his superior martial arts skill saving him from death at the hands of his skilled assailant. Two more agents are killed just before Quiller can get the information they had about the assassins, one found dead in the coils of his own pet boa constrictor. While all this is going on, Quiller learns that a mysterious figure named Tung Kuo-feng is involved—a Triad leader who commands a team of elite assassins but whose whereabouts is unknown. After the beautiful Li-fei is sent to kill Quiller, thinking that he killed her brother, a Triad assassin, Quiller learns that Tung is holed up in a former monastery on a mountain in a remote part of South Korea.
The novel shifts into overdrive for the final third as Quiller begins his set piece mission: to air-drop near the mountain before dawn, make his way stealthily to the monastery, infiltrate the grounds, take out Kuo-feng and get out without getting killed by his retinue of assassins. It's a tall order, but Quiller is the late 20th century British equivalent of a ninja, so if anyone can do it he can! The mission is further complicated by the assignment of a female guide who is a skydiving expert, mountaineer and fluent Korean speaker, as Quiller normally works alone. As usual with Quiller missions, things go sideways almost immediately and the executive is forced to improvise. Without providing too many spoilers, Quiller faces some brutal adversity but manages to get to the monastery, where he discovers that other world powers are involved who are using the assassinations to spread chaos for a nefarious geopolitical purpose.
This was probably the most fast-paced, action-packed Quiller installment I've read. Quiller is a real ninja in this one, who showcases his impressive range of skills: he kills men with his bare hands (he never carries a gun), evades pursuers by floating under debris on a river, air-drops into enemy territory by night, evades and ambushes a sniper, sends cleverly coded messages to deceive his captors, escapes a cell, sneaks around a well-guarded enemy compound, creates a diversionary explosion, flies a helicopter, and gets into an incredible mental battle with Kuo-fong in which the Triad leader showcases his impressive "ki" powers to try to control Quiller. Though never cartoonish, this one is slightly over the top by Trevor's standards. I suspect he was influenced by the success of Eric van Lustbader's blockbuster 1980 novel The Ninja and similar works of that era, and decided to turn up the ninja elements in this one. There was something in the zeitgeist of the early 1980s that produced a lot of great spy/action/ninja thrillers, and this is another one to add to the list. Great read.
Get a copy of The Peking Target here.
April 6, 2020
The Pekin target starts with one of Quiller’s colleagues, a fellow executive, being killed on home soil, and barely lets off for a second from that moment on. Quiller himself almost instantly becomes a target, even before he decides to take over from Sinclair, the dead executive in question, and soon becomes a hunted man in his bid to try and discover what information his fellow operative found out but failed to pass on before he was killed.
This is a very fast paced and rapidly moving thriller that plays out like a deadly game of cat and mouse, as Quiller constantly finds himself trying to survive following a series of assassination attempts on his life.
It is another fine example of Adam Hall at his best and comes highly recommended if you enjoy realistic spy thrillers in the vein of Len Deighton and John Le Carre.
This is a very fast paced and rapidly moving thriller that plays out like a deadly game of cat and mouse, as Quiller constantly finds himself trying to survive following a series of assassination attempts on his life.
It is another fine example of Adam Hall at his best and comes highly recommended if you enjoy realistic spy thrillers in the vein of Len Deighton and John Le Carre.
July 1, 2023
Another thrilling romp with Quiller, avoiding death half a dozen times to reach mission accomplished. Fromthe banks of the Thames to ‘Pekin’ into the wilds of Korea with a female ‘geologist’ (who has her way with him before her demise), he battles Triad and Soviet adversaries to the usual cliff-hanging ending.
February 4, 2024
Quiller, the prickly and deadly British agent from "the Bureau," is in the far East. On the heels of multiple assassinations in Beijing, he goes to Korea to puts the plotters (Russians and North Koreans) out of business.
January 15, 2023
If you've read 10 books of any series then there really is no question as to whether or not you enjoy them. Unless you're one of those literary masochist-completionist types. Which I'm not. These books are my antidote to a book slump.
June 26, 2025
After a quick reread, "The Peking Target" may have Quiller's best getaway. Certainly he is never faced with escaping a tighter net than "the opposition" throws around him here in China and then Seoul.
Classic Quiller. Quiller books are the most eloquent spy novels out there. Here, despite one or two false, Hollywood notes, "The Peking Target" is filled with memorable scenes and Hall's tight, tense writing. Among the highlights:
- Quiller is trapped in a hospital, with a number of hitmen guarding different exits. He kills a young thug during his escape. "Footsteps filled the alley, but the walls echoed and reechoed them in the narrow confines and they might only have been my own. The first of them had stopped, perhaps, to check the dead boy on the ground, giving me time to get clear, as if the boy had reached out from whatever cosmic field of consciousness sustained him now, and chosen to offer me grace."
- After fleeing Peking for Seoul, Quiller is immediately in trouble. His escape in a river, following a car chase and crash, is among Q's greatest survival moments.
- There's a touch of humanity here, too, among Bureau assets. At one point when Quiller is stretched close to the breaking point and his every move seems covered, Ferris, Quiller's favorite "director in the field," says to him, "Why don't you go home, Q. Anyone else would."
"This is home," Quiller responds.
"On the edge?"
"Yes."
- Toward the end, when Quiller is in a Korean hilltop monastery facing his Triad adversary and the KGB, there's an amazing bit where a KGB colonel, Tung Kuo-Feng (the Triad chief), and Quiller are transmitting via shortwave radio, each with his own agenda and in different languages. Master class.
- After Q escapes from a would-be Korean assassin in a monastery cell, he begins working his way barefoot, in the moonlight, across the compound toward Tung Kuo-Feng's cell. There's a fountain in the courtyard, and Quiller stops: "Not far from the pagoda there was a fountain in a basin carved from the solid rock, and I stopped to lean over the water's surface and plunge my face where the moon's reflection lay afloat, opening my mouth and cleansing his blood from it, drinking deeply and slaking my bruised skin with its cooling touch, my body hunched at the basin's rim like a beast at a waterhole, easing the ravages of the hunt before moving on."
Up there with "Quiller," "The Mandarin Cypher" and "The Tango Briefing" as among the best in a great, great series.
Classic Quiller. Quiller books are the most eloquent spy novels out there. Here, despite one or two false, Hollywood notes, "The Peking Target" is filled with memorable scenes and Hall's tight, tense writing. Among the highlights:
- Quiller is trapped in a hospital, with a number of hitmen guarding different exits. He kills a young thug during his escape. "Footsteps filled the alley, but the walls echoed and reechoed them in the narrow confines and they might only have been my own. The first of them had stopped, perhaps, to check the dead boy on the ground, giving me time to get clear, as if the boy had reached out from whatever cosmic field of consciousness sustained him now, and chosen to offer me grace."
- After fleeing Peking for Seoul, Quiller is immediately in trouble. His escape in a river, following a car chase and crash, is among Q's greatest survival moments.
- There's a touch of humanity here, too, among Bureau assets. At one point when Quiller is stretched close to the breaking point and his every move seems covered, Ferris, Quiller's favorite "director in the field," says to him, "Why don't you go home, Q. Anyone else would."
"This is home," Quiller responds.
"On the edge?"
"Yes."
- Toward the end, when Quiller is in a Korean hilltop monastery facing his Triad adversary and the KGB, there's an amazing bit where a KGB colonel, Tung Kuo-Feng (the Triad chief), and Quiller are transmitting via shortwave radio, each with his own agenda and in different languages. Master class.
- After Q escapes from a would-be Korean assassin in a monastery cell, he begins working his way barefoot, in the moonlight, across the compound toward Tung Kuo-Feng's cell. There's a fountain in the courtyard, and Quiller stops: "Not far from the pagoda there was a fountain in a basin carved from the solid rock, and I stopped to lean over the water's surface and plunge my face where the moon's reflection lay afloat, opening my mouth and cleansing his blood from it, drinking deeply and slaking my bruised skin with its cooling touch, my body hunched at the basin's rim like a beast at a waterhole, easing the ravages of the hunt before moving on."
Up there with "Quiller," "The Mandarin Cypher" and "The Tango Briefing" as among the best in a great, great series.
July 13, 2012
I remember reading this on publication, and having to take breaks because of the breakneck pace and the tension of the story. This time out I spent as much contiguous time reading ss possible. I think that what makes these novels so darn good is that Quiller's ability to get out of impossible situations is entirely probable.
August 26, 2007
Read this thriller again after a long time. It is a classic Quiller, all the elements of an almost failed mission turned around by a grouchy but brilliant agent. Written under the pen name of Adam Hall, it was fun to get in touch with Quiller again.
May 20, 2023
4 1/2 star to 5 minus. Intense as the other books, but more actions. Several attempts on Q's life and an assignment that looks almost impossible.
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