North from Rome - Softcover

Macinnes, Helen

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Synopsis

A young American caught in a hazardous game of international intrigue, centering upon a narcotics ring, in contemporary Italy.

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About the Author

Helen Clark MacInnes (October 7, 1907, Glasgow – September 30, 1985, New York City) was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels.

She graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1928 with a degree in French and German. Working as a librarian, she married the classicist Gilbert Highet in 1932 and moved with her husband to New York in 1937.

Among her works are:

  • Above Suspicion (1941) made into a film of the same name.
  • Assignment in Brittany (1942) made into a film of the same name
  • The Unconquerable (1944), also called While Still We Live
  • Horizon (1945)
  • Friends and Lovers (1947)
  • Rest and Be Thankful (1949)
  • Neither Five Nor Three (1951)
  • I and My True Love (1953)
  • Pray for a Brave Heart (1955)
  • North from Rome (1958)
  • Decision at Delphi (1960)
  • The Venetian Affair (1963), made into a film of the same name
  • Double Image (1966)
  • The Salzburg Connection (1968), made into a film of the same name
  • Message from Malaga (1971)
  • Snare of the Hunter (1974)
  • Agent in Place (1976)
  • Home Is the Hunter (1976)
  • Prelude to Terror (1978)
  • The Hidden Target (1980)
  • Cloak of Darkness (1982)
  • Ride a Pale Horse (1984)

In 1966 she won the Columba Prize for Literature.

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