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Peter Ashton #1
Hostile Intent
The rules of the game have changed…
It is the spring of 1991 when a minor British official trading low-grade information with Galina Kutuzova – an equally low-key Russian informant – is blown up in a neo-Nazi riot in Dresden.
To the British government it is a small affair and Peter Ashton, a mid-ranking and always dependable agent, is asked to arrive at the acceptable explanation that it was a random accident.
But after a nearly lethal trip to Leningrad and Moscow, Ashton believes that the suddenly elusive Galina has defected to America.
And to make matters worse, silencing her is now high on the Russians' list of priorities.
Galina must know too much to have fled so far.
To convince the British Foreign Office and the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency, Ashton hatches a plan that puts him at extreme personal and professional risk.
With gut-wrenching suspense and clear-ringing authenticity, Clive Egleton tightens suspense like a slipknot as American and British agents converge at a Rocky Mountain safe house to pay back the KGB for five decades of Hostile Intent .
‘An author who understands violence, its surface and inner workings’ – Observer
‘Reports of the spy thriller’s demise have clearly been premature’ – Sunday Telegraph
Clive Frederick William Egleton (1927 – 2006) was a British author of spy novels. He enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps in 1945 to train as a tank driver while still underage. He was subsequently commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment for whom he served in India, Hong Kong, Germany, Egypt, Cyprus, The Persian Gulf and East Africa. He retired in 1975 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. His novel Seven Days to a Killing was filmed as The Black Windmill, starring Michael Caine. Escape to Athena is a novelization of the 1979 movie of the same name.
It is the spring of 1991 when a minor British official trading low-grade information with Galina Kutuzova – an equally low-key Russian informant – is blown up in a neo-Nazi riot in Dresden.
To the British government it is a small affair and Peter Ashton, a mid-ranking and always dependable agent, is asked to arrive at the acceptable explanation that it was a random accident.
But after a nearly lethal trip to Leningrad and Moscow, Ashton believes that the suddenly elusive Galina has defected to America.
And to make matters worse, silencing her is now high on the Russians' list of priorities.
Galina must know too much to have fled so far.
To convince the British Foreign Office and the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency, Ashton hatches a plan that puts him at extreme personal and professional risk.
With gut-wrenching suspense and clear-ringing authenticity, Clive Egleton tightens suspense like a slipknot as American and British agents converge at a Rocky Mountain safe house to pay back the KGB for five decades of Hostile Intent .
‘An author who understands violence, its surface and inner workings’ – Observer
‘Reports of the spy thriller’s demise have clearly been premature’ – Sunday Telegraph
Clive Frederick William Egleton (1927 – 2006) was a British author of spy novels. He enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps in 1945 to train as a tank driver while still underage. He was subsequently commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment for whom he served in India, Hong Kong, Germany, Egypt, Cyprus, The Persian Gulf and East Africa. He retired in 1975 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. His novel Seven Days to a Killing was filmed as The Black Windmill, starring Michael Caine. Escape to Athena is a novelization of the 1979 movie of the same name.
331 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 1, 1993
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Clive Egleton
59 books7 followersClive (Frederick William) Egleton was a British author of spy novels.
He enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps in 1945 to train as a tank driver while still underage. He was subsequently commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment for whom he served in India, Hong Kong, Germany, Egypt, Cyprus, The Persian Gulf and East Africa. He retired in 1975 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
His novel Seven Days to a Killing was filmed as The Black Windmill, starring Michael Caine. Escape to Athena is a novelization of the 1979 movie of the same name.
He enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps in 1945 to train as a tank driver while still underage. He was subsequently commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment for whom he served in India, Hong Kong, Germany, Egypt, Cyprus, The Persian Gulf and East Africa. He retired in 1975 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
His novel Seven Days to a Killing was filmed as The Black Windmill, starring Michael Caine. Escape to Athena is a novelization of the 1979 movie of the same name.
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February 27, 2018
Excellent Read
Don't miss this first of many adventures of Peter Ashton s in an attempt to right the stupid thinking of SIS mismanagement. Clive Egerton is master in his craft as a writer as well as presenter at RMA Sandhurst.
Don't miss this first of many adventures of Peter Ashton s in an attempt to right the stupid thinking of SIS mismanagement. Clive Egerton is master in his craft as a writer as well as presenter at RMA Sandhurst.
April 3, 2010
A slow start almost made me give up, but at the end Egletton had tied everything together as the story rushed to it's end.
This is an end of the cold war thriller as the Soviet Union is falling apart and pulling it's troops out of Eastern Europe.
This is an end of the cold war thriller as the Soviet Union is falling apart and pulling it's troops out of Eastern Europe.
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October 8, 2015i want to read it but it doesn't work what me to do
October 26, 2007
NO offense but I think this book is pretty boring...I don't really understand the storyline.
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