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Helen MacInnes

    7 oktober 1907 – 30 september 1985

    Helen MacInnes was een Schots-Amerikaanse auteur van spionageromans, wier werken zich verdiepten in de ingewikkelde werelden van intriges en internationale spanning. Haar schrijven werd gekenmerkt door nauwgezet onderzoek en een talent om lezers mee te slepen in spannende plots. MacInnes verweefde meesterlijk aangrijpende verhalen met psychologische karakterstudies. Haar romans onderzochten thema's als verraad, loyaliteit en morele dilemma's in een mondiale context.

    Helen MacInnes
    The Double Image
    Rest and Be Thankful
    Horizon
    The Hidden Target
    Noodsein uit Malaga
    Ontknoping in Delphi
    • Gevaarlijke avonturen in Griekenland van een Amerikaanse architect die betrokken raakt bij de uiteindelijke afrekening tussen twee groepen oud-verzetsstrijders.

      Ontknoping in Delphi
    • Noodsein uit Malaga

      • 346bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen
      3,7(10)Tarief

      Een Amerikaan die denkt een paar rustige dagen in Spanje te zullen doorbrengen, raakt ongewild verwikkeld in een strijd tussen de geheime diensten van de Verenigde Staten en Rusland.

      Noodsein uit Malaga
    • For Nina, the trip around the world was the holiday of a lifetime. Her new friends were lively students but terrorism was the only degree attractive James Kiley was pursuing.

      The Hidden Target
    • Horizon

      • 192bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen
      4,0(2)Tarief

      A thriller by the author of "North from Rome", "Prelude to Terror", "Snare of the Hunter", "Ride a Pale Horse", "Unconquerable" and "Message from Malaga".

      Horizon
    • Rest and Be Thankful

      • 320bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen
      4,0(7)Tarief

      They were worlds apart. Sarah Bly, a sophisticated career woman on a chauffeur-driven tour of America with the wealthy Mrs Margaret Peel. Jim Brent, a tough, old-fashioned cowboy, ill at ease away from his rugged mountain ranch. Yet a wrong turn on a remote road in Wyoming unexpectedly brings them together. The discovery of the ranch house Rest and be Thankful opens Sarah’s eyes to the beauty of the West and makes the brash cynicism of the city seem irrelevant. After years of travelling the world, this idyllic place could be what she’s been searching for. But can two such different people every really overcome their differences and give in to love?

      Rest and Be Thankful
    • When Igor Insarov, KGB agent, meets an Auschwitz survivor who can identify him as an SS Colonel, he reacts with savage speed - within a day, his former victim is dead.

      The Double Image
    • A game of espionage ... Fenner burned Rosenfeld's message, reminding himself wryly that he was behaving in the very best tradition. This was a game not too difficult to learn, he thought. A game? A game in deadly earnest. A vacation in Venice that was grim business. A girl constantly beside him who wasn't his. How the hell had he walked into this upside-down world? Where, he wondered suddenly, would Venice lead?

      The Venetian Affair
    • The scene is Vienna, where an American art expert, Colin Grant, has been dispatched by a Texas millionaire to buy a painting by the Dutch master Ruysdael. He is instructed to get the painting "at any cost" but to keep his employer's name a secret. This seemingly simple assignment turns into a nightmare for Grant as he finds himself in the center of a conspiracy to unleash bloody international terrorismThe art world meets cloak-and-dagger intrigue in this Cold War thriller. A triumph of pacing from a veteran of the genre.

      Prelude to Terror