The Spy in Black - Hardcover

J. Storer Clouston

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0955366712 ISBN 13: 9780955366710

Publisher: Seabridge, 2007

Synopsis

If any one had been watching the bay that August night (which, fortunately for us, there was not), they would have seen up till an hour after midnight as lonely and peaceful a scene as if it had been some inlet in Greenland. The war might have been waging on another planet. The segment of a waning moon was just rising, but the sky was covered with clouds, except right overhead where a bevy of stars twinkled, and it was a dim though not a dark night. The sea was as flat and calm as you can ever get on an Atlantic coast -- a glassy surface, but always a gentle regular bursting of foam upon the beach. In a semicircle the shore rose black, towering at either horn (and especially on the south) into high dark cliffs.

It was wartime, and I was preparing to infiltrate the enemy. A serious, serious moment.

About this title

About the Author

Joseph Storer Clouston (1870 - 1944) was an Orcadian author and historian. J S Clouston OBE, the son of psychiatrist Sir Thomas Clouston, was from an "old Orkney family", according to his obituary in The Scotsman. After being educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh and Magdalen College, Oxford, he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in London in 1895, but never practiced as a lawyer. Soon after embarking on a career as a writer, he published one of his most popular novels, The Lunatic at Large. He was also a historian, author of a great history of Orkney, a founder member and second president of the Orkney Antiquarian Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. His The Spy in Black was made into a successful film in the late 1930s.

Edition details

• Publisher: Seabridge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0955366712
• ISBN 13: 9780955366710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 144