- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Fontana Press; (Reissue) edition (28 Jun 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 000615266X
- ISBN-13: 978-0006152668
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.9 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 836,188 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Unbeatable for sheer gripping excitement.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'As long as meticulous craftsmanship and honest entertainment are valued, and as long as action, authenticity, and expertise still make up the strong framework of the good adventure/thriller, Desmond Bagley's books will surely be read.' REGINALD HILL, Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers
'Bagley is a master storyteller.' DAILY MIRROR
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A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
The trap is sprung… The orders were 'Go for Slade and the Scarperers - but especially Slade!' And for Owen Stannard this is the beginning of a new and deadly assignment.
The Scarperers, a brilliantly-organised gang for getting long-term prisoners out of gaol, have spring Slade, notorious Russian double agent. The trail leads Stannard to Malta and the mastermind behind the Scarperers: suave, cultured - and a killer. Face to face at last with both his opponents, Stannard must try to outwit these two men - who have nothing to lose and everything to gain by his death…
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Owen Stannard gets a hefty jail sentence for receiving stolen property. In a British prison, he makes contact with a gang known as 'The Scarperers', who specialise in successful escapes - if the price is right. Along with a notorious double agent named Slade, Stannard goes over the wall. In actual fact, Stannard is working for the British Secret Service, answerable only to a man called 'Mackintosh'. Someone wants the information in Slade's head badly. Stannard must find out whom, even if it means risking his own neck...
Filmed by John Huston in 1971 as 'The Mackintosh Man' starring Paul Newman and James Mason, this is a tough, gritty spy story in the best tradition of Buchan's 'The 39 Steps', only set in Ireland instead of Scotland. Loosely based on the real-life George Blake affair, Bagley never lets up the excitement, subjecting the reader to an endless barrage of twists and turns. The climax of the book is completely different to the one in the movie, being a lot more spectacular visually. Though Bagley in his lifetime never really emerged out of Alistair Maclean's shadow, his books are in my view far superior.
Filmed by John Huston in 1971 as 'The Mackintosh Man' starring Paul Newman and James Mason, this is a tough, gritty spy story in the best tradition of Buchan's 'The 39 Steps', only set in Ireland instead of Scotland. Loosely based on the real-life George Blake affair, Bagley never lets up the excitement, subjecting the reader to an endless barrage of twists and turns. The climax of the book is completely different to the one in the movie, being a lot more spectacular visually. Though Bagley in his lifetime never really emerged out of Alistair Maclean's shadow, his books are in my view far superior.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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14 May 2002
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I hadn't heard of Desmond Bagley when I came across this book. What had attracted me to this book was a comment by a critic that this book puts Bagley into Alistair Maclean's category. Personally I think this book far exceeds anything that Maclean ever wrote. An amazing plot that stays with you forever !
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
excellent
4 Sep 2009
Format:Paperback
It is great that these books are back in print. Freedom Trap, Running Blind, Landslide and Snow Tiger are the best.
It would be nicer if they were available for Kindle. Hint, hint.
It would be nicer if they were available for Kindle. Hint, hint.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Masterful thriller for fans of Fleming, DeMille and Maclean
3 Mar 2008
Format:Paperback
Wow, Desmond Bagley is good! This was my first novel by this author, but definitely not the last. "The Freedom Trap" is a taut, unpredictable, totally absorbing story about a top-secret operation to take down an organized crime ring and a Russian spy in one stroke. There are twists and turns, an international chase, intense action scenes and a larger conspiracy as the story unfolds. Bagley was definitely a master of the thriller genre in the British tradition of Ian Fleming and Alistair Maclean, with a very polished and vivid style of writing. His influence on popular writers like DeMille, Ludlum and Follett is clear--but where they might take four or five hundred pages to tell a story, Bagley does it in 250. This makes for a very lean, fast-paced novel, which I found impossible to put down. If you haven't tried this author, do yourself a favor and get some of his books. Absolutely top shelf!
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