Review
'Impeccably written, it is a very British book, with country houses in the Cotswolds and well-behaved intelligentsia as the characters.'TANGLED WEB
Product Description
When David Audley, that most subtle of Intelligence chiefs, sends his insubordinate protege Paul Mitchell off to investigate a KGB operation by researching a long-forgotten naval engagement off France in 1812, it doesn't look to Mitchell as if it will lead anywhere. But the fate of the crew of the Vengeful has more than a few surprises in store for Mitchell and suddenly the past throws a dazzling and very dangerous light on the present.
From the Back Cover
THE OLD VENGEFUL
Commander Loftus of the 'Vengeful' is dead. But why does that interest the Russians? In the course of history there have been a dozen ships called 'Vengeful' – now there is a KGB project by the same name. Coincidence, or is there a connection?
Intelligence chief David Audley instructs one of his brightest agents to investigate the mystery surrounding a frigate lost in the Napoleonic wars. It seems like a real wild goose chase…
“Yet another cunningly put together spy thriller, with an ingeniously complex plot: highly readable, extremely engrossing…he has done it again”
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
“The best thriller writer in the business…Francis…Bagley…Hall…Deighton…Forsyth…Le Carré…Price matches them all and has something else besides – an intelligence that informs everything he does”
TIME OUT
“Hyper-complex”
GUARDIAN
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About the Author
Born in Hertfordshire in 1928, Price was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and Oxford. His long career in journalism culminated in the Editorship of the Oxford Times. His 1970 debut, The Labyrinth Makers, won the CWA Silver Dagger; his hero, Dr David Audley, historian and spy, featured in this and 18 subsequent novels.
