- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: Hutchinson (April 1967)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0090290712
- ISBN-13: 978-0090290710
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,100,826 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Dennis Wheatley wrote a tremendous number of thrillers, but this is perhaps his best. A story of his 'Modern Musketeers' the Duc de Richleau, Simon Aaron, Rex Van Ryn and Richard Eaton, it takes place in the Spain of the 30s. The Civil War is raging, with both sides prepared to go to any length to win.
The Duc de Richleau is asked to find an enormous stash of gold, hidden somewhere in the war torn country. Determined to beat the communist forces, he asks his friends to help him find it. However, he finds that two of his friends are sympathetic to the communists. Very soon the former comrades find themselves trying to outwit one another in a potentially lethal treasure hunt.
This is a real edge of the seat read. The action-packed plot twists and turns right until the end, but there is also a real depth of feeling (not always Wheatley's strong suit). On top of this, there is an enormous amount of background about the conflict, which is fascinating all by itself. If you are only going to read one Wheatley book, this should be it.
The Duc de Richleau is asked to find an enormous stash of gold, hidden somewhere in the war torn country. Determined to beat the communist forces, he asks his friends to help him find it. However, he finds that two of his friends are sympathetic to the communists. Very soon the former comrades find themselves trying to outwit one another in a potentially lethal treasure hunt.
This is a real edge of the seat read. The action-packed plot twists and turns right until the end, but there is also a real depth of feeling (not always Wheatley's strong suit). On top of this, there is an enormous amount of background about the conflict, which is fascinating all by itself. If you are only going to read one Wheatley book, this should be it.
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Enjoyable Wheatley "Duc de Richelieu" adventure
14 Feb 2007
Format:Mass Market Paperback
"The Golden Spaniard" is an enjoyable period adventure set during the Spanish Civil War written by Dennis Wheatley (who wrote it in the 30s). It features those "modern musketeers": the exiled Anglo-French nobleman/adventurer the Duc de Richelieu, his American friend, the pugnacious Rex Van Ryn and their English colleagues, Richard Eaton and Simon Aron who wind up on opposite sides in the civil war between Franco and the Socialist Spanish Government. Not as good as Wheatley's best book - the occult adventure "The Devil Rides Out" - but still fun and full of intrigue and daring escapades, even though it is jingoistic, simplistic and very politically incorrect as all of Wheatley's work is. Like much of the English upper class, Wheatley's sympathy is with the right but not blindly so (see that scene in the Finnish Embassy with the exiled aristocrats).
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