Croisiere de l'angoisse (la)

Italian fascists were a joke, unless they had you in their power. They had Marlow, and he was desperate. He ended up running for his life. "Exciting chases, hairbreadth escapes, authentically accurate. Excellent!" (Saturday Review)

Je Ne Suis Pas Un Héros

Heritage schirmer (l')

N'envoyez plus de roses

The warning message arrived on Monday, the bomb itself on Wednesday. It became a very busy week...

Le Brochet

Brochet (le)

Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul boîte, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with plans for a Turkish defense system, the seductive cabaret dancer and her manager husband, and a number of surprising allies. Thrilling, intense, and masterfully plotted, Journey Into Fear is a classic suspense tale from one of the founders of the genre.

La croisière de l'angoisse: roman

In JUDGMENT ON DELTCHEV, a young British playwrite, Foster, is asked to cover the trial of Yordan Deltchev, seemingly a victim of a Soviet frameup."It soon becomes clear that things are infinitely more complicated than that. In the course of his investigations, Foster discovers a dead body in a tenement room, is attacked in a dark street by two hired thugs, gets mixed up with an assortment of people of sinister behavior and cryptic party affiliations, and in the end, witnesses a shocking assassination." (The New Yorker)

L'affaire Deltchev

Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent and a charge of espionage is levelled at him.

Epitaph for a spy

A coup d'état in a Caribbean state causes a political storm in the region and even the seemingly impassive and impersonal Doctor Castillo, nicknamed Doctor Frigo, cannot escape the consequences. As things heat up, Frigo finds that both his profession and life are horribly at risk.

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