Prelude to Terror

by Helen MacInnes

ISBN: 0151739269
ISBN-13: 9780151739264
Format: Hardcover

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Publisher: Harcourt
Published date: 1978

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Flying to Vienna to purchase at auction a painting whose present owner is a Hungarian planning defection, art consultant Colin Grant finds himself the key piece in a conspiracy of fraud, kidnapping, murder, and wholesale international terror.

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PRELUDE TO TERROR

HELEN MACINNES

[ISBN: 0151739269]

HARCOURT, BRACE AND WORLD, 1978 Hard Cover. Good/Good. First Edition. Ex-Library. ISBN:0151739269. 368 PAGES This one of three MacInnes novels featuring Robert Renwick as the hero. They are best read in order: PRELUDE TO TERROR, THE HIDDEN TARGET, and then CLOAK OF DARKNESS. Almost all of MacInnes's novels were about the struggle against either Nazism or Communism, but in this novel the focus begins to shift more towards international terrorism. While Renwick (a NATO intelligence officer looking into the connection between the Soviets and terrorism) is a major figure in the novel, the central hero is that MacInnes specialty, an amateur who just stumbles into a dangerous situation and accepts it as his patriotic duty to play the role the professionals ask of him. As always in a MacInnes novel, there is also a love interest. In this case she is an agent working for Renwick, and she falls for the amateur hero as hard as he falls for her. But love and freedom are never safe in a MacInnes novel.... Unlike the usual focus of a spy novel (secrets or perhaps the identity of the spy), the focus in this story is the money trail leading from the old enemies of the west to the new enemies of the west, the terrorists. But other than that it's a typical MacInnes spy novel of Americans in Europe.. First Edition. Good. (more information)

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