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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Felony & Mayhem (Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1933397128
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933397122
  • Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 14 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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When an RAF Dakota, presumed lost at sea in 1945, is discovered in a drained lake in Lincolnshire, together with its pilot and a cargo of worthless rubble, it falls to David Audley of the MOD to puzzle out just why the Russians are so interested, and what the plane was carrying that is important enough to kill for. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This is the first book in Price's espionage series about British Intelligence's shadowy "Research and Development" department. It pays to read the books in order of publication - they get more complex as you go along, and it is useful to be familiar with recurring characters, particularly the maverick intellectual, David Audley, and the working class Lancastrian soldier, Colonel Jack Butler. I originally read one of the subsequent books first and could not make head or tail of it, but "Labyrinth Makers" sets you up for the others and is relatively straightforward.

Only relatively, though. This is an intricate world of intellectual double- and triple-cross. The fun is in the complexity of the twists as each character tries to gain more information than he gives away. Each book is told from one character's internal point of view, and he can misunderstand others' personality and motives quite fundamentally, as subsequent books may show.

David Audley is the subject character of this first book, and is still quite junior in the department. He is a historian, which is a key factor - in Price's books, the real solution to the mystery almost always lies in the past, recent or remote. He has to find out why a Second World War transport plane, piloted by the con-artist father of a young woman, crashed with an apparently worthless cargo, and why Comrade Professor Panin of the KGB is interested in it.

There is little overt violence and no improbable James Bond-type agent; the conflict is one of information and ideas, and the hero is quite realistically scared of getting hurt. The final twist, as always with Price, is completely unpredictable, and you never know what to believe. As the series continues, things which had been clarified, apparently finally, at the end of one book are sometimes called into question in a subsequent one.

I would very strongly recomment this book, not just as a holiday read but also as the introduction to a realistic and fascinating world, which covers most of the last three decades of the Cold War and the first few years after it ended. (Price, very wisely, seems to have stopped writing as his senior characters retire and the us-versus-them certainties with which they have lived disappear). Read this book, then read all its many sequels.

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