Bonfire Night

Callan #5

by James Mitchell

Someone is out to kill Major David Callan. As yet he doesn't know who's behind it, but he does know who's been given the Hermann Voss, his ex-captor and torturer in East Berlin before the Wall came down...and perhaps the only man up to the job. The action is non-stop and ranges from London to the south of Spain before it reaches the inevitable showdown.

Genres: Espionage

192 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

James William Mitchell (12 March 1926, South Shields - 15 September 2002, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) was a British writer of crime fiction and spy thrillers. Mr. Mitchell also wrote under the pseudonyms James Munro and Patrick O. McGuire. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from Oxford.


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Reviews

[Darryl Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

BONFIRE NIGHT is another very good Callan novel by James Mitchell, who never wrote a bad Callan book. The series is better than Mitchell's other spy novels about John Craig, written under the pen name of James Munro, but those border on excellent as well. BONFIRE NIGHT zipped along so nicely I read it in one sitting. The changes in character of both Callan and Lonely in the earlier novels seemed like a logical progression to me. Nor was I put off by the writing style, a very dense Cockney flavored prose that does differ from the first four Callan novels but is still bloody good and ultra-readable.