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Peter Ashton #1
Hostile Intent
A British intelligence operative is blown up in newly-liberated East Germany, his Red Army contact, gorgeous Galine Kutuzova, goes on the run, and Peter Ashton of the SIS is sent to find her and her secrets before she sells them to the wrong people.
448 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1993
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About the author
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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