Talking to Strange Men. - Softcover

Rendell, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099557908 ISBN 13: 9780099557906

Publisher: Pantheon Books, 1987

Synopsis

Safe houses and secret message drops, double crosses and defections - it sounds like the stuff of sophisticated espionage, but the agents and moles are schoolboys engaged in harmless play.

John Creevey doesn't know this. To him, the messages he painstakingly decodes are the communications of dangerous men, and as he comes face to face with the fact of his beloved wife Jennifer's defection, he begins to see a way to get back at the man she left him for.

And soon the boys are playing more than just a game....

About this title

About the Author

Ruth Rendell is the recipient of several awards, including three Edgars and four Gold Daggers from the UK’s Crime Writers’ Association. Simisola, Blood Lines, Keys to the Street, and The Brimstone Wedding (written as Barbara Vine) are available from Brilliance Audio. She lives in England.

From School Library Journal

YA Another compelling novel of psychological suspense from Rendell. The characters, a group of teenage boys playing espionage games and a lonely man facing his wife's desertion, are introduced through a first-person narrative which at first barely allows readers to understand how they relate to each other. Slowly the characters' lives become intertwined through the discovery of secret messages and unsolved codes. The suspense builds as readers realize that the misconceptions that each character holds can lead to disaster and that the teenage espionage games actually deal with a man's life. A wonderful novel that will intrigue young adult readers. Susan Penny, Houston Public Library
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Edition details

• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099557908
• ISBN 13: 9780099557906
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302