A most private intrigue - Hardcover
Kirkus' Review A knot of silk and smoke..."" is what one of the characters calls it, and that's right. Rosten has provided an espionage entertainment with silky dialogue and, if some literal-minded lout should point out that there are essential plot points left smoked over, tell him that such has always been the case in this genre. The hero is Peter Galton, Princetonian gentleman, bachelor, contemporary Pimpernel. He's cool and virile without the suspicion, as there is with Bond and Co., that he can impregnate virgins with a glance. Galton's bent on saving a damsel that he left in Soviet distress nearly six years ago. Fatly greedy Mr. Sulenkian is prepared to smuggle her out sandwiched between two top scientists and his price is as fabulous as the Istanbul setting. Our government is interested, but allows this to be handled by Galton as a privately financed business deal. Galton goes to Turkey and, in one of the wildest stretches of recent suspense reading, he pulls off a harried, secret hurry-in to Russia at one of the border's weakest points. Beautiful! Nobody around can handle dialects like the creator of H*Y*M*A*N* K*A*P*L*A*N*. A most public success is predicted.
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- PublisherATheneum
- Publication date1967
- ISBN 10 1135435618
- ISBN 13 9781135435615
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages270
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