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Counterstroke
"We are holding Sally Morland...Unless the authorities agree to the exchange, Mrs. Morland will be tortured to death..."Sally Morland, wife of a high British official, has been kidnapped by terrorists. In exchange for her safe return, they demand the release of Tom Lacey, their jailed leader. Enter Bob Farran, an unemployed actor skilled at make-up and mimicry. His impersonate Lacey so convincingly that even the terrorists will be deceived. As Farran prepares for the greatest role of his life, however, unseen forces are already building toward a nerve-searing climax of shock and horror...
182 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1978
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Andrew Garve
138 books11 followersAKA: Paul Somers, Roger Bax
Andrew Garve was the pen name of Paul Winterton (1908-2001). He was born in Leicester and educated at the Hulme Grammar School, Manchester and Purley County School, Surrey, after which he took a degree in Economics at London University. He was on the staff of The Economist for four years, and then worked for fourteen years for the London News Chronicle as reporter, leader writer and foreign correspondent. He was assigned to Moscow from 1942 to 1945, where he was also the correspondent of the BBC’s Overseas Service.
After the war he turned to full-time writing of detective and adventure novels and produced more than forty-five books. His work was serialized, televised, broadcast, filmed and translated into some twenty languages. He was noted for his varied and unusual backgrounds – including Russia, newspaper offices, the West Indies, ocean sailing, the Australian outback, politics, mountaineering and forestry – and for never repeating a plot.
Andrew Garve was a founding member and first joint secretary of the Crime Writers’ Association.
Andrew Garve was the pen name of Paul Winterton (1908-2001). He was born in Leicester and educated at the Hulme Grammar School, Manchester and Purley County School, Surrey, after which he took a degree in Economics at London University. He was on the staff of The Economist for four years, and then worked for fourteen years for the London News Chronicle as reporter, leader writer and foreign correspondent. He was assigned to Moscow from 1942 to 1945, where he was also the correspondent of the BBC’s Overseas Service.
After the war he turned to full-time writing of detective and adventure novels and produced more than forty-five books. His work was serialized, televised, broadcast, filmed and translated into some twenty languages. He was noted for his varied and unusual backgrounds – including Russia, newspaper offices, the West Indies, ocean sailing, the Australian outback, politics, mountaineering and forestry – and for never repeating a plot.
Andrew Garve was a founding member and first joint secretary of the Crime Writers’ Association.
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August 9, 2011 Not a bad story - a British police procedural mystery with a different slant - there was no murder and the main hero is an out of work actor. I must say I thought the ending was a bit disappointing though.
March 31, 2011
brave actor takes on anarchists
June 3, 2015
Disappointing stuff.
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