- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Futura Publications; New e. edition (23 Mar 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0708816215
- ISBN-13: 978-0708816219
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 337,579 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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WAR GAME
In the rural peace of modern England a war game recreates the slaughter of the Civil War. But when the battle ends, a real corpse is left in the Swine Brook; And an aristocratic but impoverished revolutionary claims to have found a cache of ‘Cromwell’s Gold’.
When David Audley is called in, seventeenth-century secrets and the deadly game espionage clash to make a brilliantly intricate thriller of bluff and counter-bluff.
“Brilliant”
EVENING STANDARD
“A treat”
THE TIMES
“Fascinating from first to last”
SUNDAY TIMES
“A brilliant and exciting mixture of seventeenth-century history and present-day politics…Both Anthony Price and Dr Audley give masterly performances”
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A Reenactor Must Read!
11 Nov 2009
Format:Paperback
I picked this up in one of those used book shops we haunt when on the road, looking for the odd, unusual, and interesting book - preferably, but not necessarily, cheap. The title attracted me first because war games and even war gamers (especially war game designers) are an interest of mine (being a hobbyist and professional war gamer, so to speak). But it only took a quick glance to see that the author, Anthony Price, had written a two-fer for me, because in this case the subject war game was actually the reenactment of one or more English Civil War battles, and here I am finishing up my first decade as a reenactor (though of the American Civil War, not the English).
So here the author was offering me a murder mystery set in the world of reenacting - as the murder itself was set in a reenactment itself. Then he throws in a secret gold treasure and Cold War era radical politics and scheming, and it seems I have found a must read for myself. I would highly recommend this to anyone who appreciates good English Cold War (and English Civil War) mysteries and especially to any reenactors out there, who should get a special kick out of this account of a reenactment gone bad!
So here the author was offering me a murder mystery set in the world of reenacting - as the murder itself was set in a reenactment itself. Then he throws in a secret gold treasure and Cold War era radical politics and scheming, and it seems I have found a must read for myself. I would highly recommend this to anyone who appreciates good English Cold War (and English Civil War) mysteries and especially to any reenactors out there, who should get a special kick out of this account of a reenactment gone bad!
1 of 7 people found the following review helpful
"War Game"
4 Jun 2002
Format:Hardcover
I think this book is great.Antony has really done a great job on this book.I think he wrote this book because he was interested of his family.
I hope this isn't his best book.When ever I read this book I feel like I am in The first world war fighting the Germans.I cannot tell you any more because I have wrote the rest with invisible inc.If you want to find out any more about
"War Game" why not buy the book.
I hope this isn't his best book.When ever I read this book I feel like I am in The first world war fighting the Germans.I cannot tell you any more because I have wrote the rest with invisible inc.If you want to find out any more about
"War Game" why not buy the book.
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