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Operation Pax (Hardcover)

by Michael Innes (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services (LBS); New impression edition (1 May 1984)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575034300
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575034303
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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A two-bit con-man is thrown in at the deep end as a desperate hunt takes place in Oxford, in this gripping tale whose thrilling climax takes place in the vaults of the Bodeleian. "REVIEW: 'Highly ingenious...all sorts of delicious nostalgia-making detail about Oxford and its elaborate hierarchy of learning' (Observer) AUTHBIO: John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was born in Edinburgh, educated at Oxford, and taught English in universities all over the world. His scholarly career includes successful works on Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy, but he is better known as mystery writer Michael Innes, whose legendary character, Inspector John Appleby, inspired a lasting vogue for donnish detective fiction. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Innes, 16 Dec 2001
By Wyatt James "Grobius" (Brooklyn NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operation Pax (Inspector Appleby Mystery) (Paperback)
A combination of chase novel, spy thriller, and academic mystery (all author specialities). Wonderful backdrop provided by the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The chapter epigraphs are all from Milton, appropriately, as the villainous conspiracy is based in the village of Milton Porcorum and is Satanic in many senses. Nice involvement of parallel plots and coteries of characters: the sleazy but sympathetic little crook Routh, who starts this thing off, Appleby, his sister, middle European refugees, some eccentric dons (e.g., Dr Bultitude), and a troop of schoolboys; a really nasty villain called Squire, ubiquitous pursuers, and a very high-level scientific conspiracy against the human race. Like most of the author's stories, the events occur in a very short time frame. This is one of Innes's best books. [PS: Appleby has a much younger sister, Jane, who is an Oxford undergraduate -- first we ever heard of this! -- and plays a prominent role in this book.]
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2.0 out of 5 stars Comatose Vegetables, 13 July 2003
This review is from: Operation Pax (Penguin crime fiction) (Paperback)
The object of Operation Pax is to sap the will power and reduce populations to comatose vegetables, which is exactly the effect it has on the reader. After the bizarre but effective opening, involving the utterly contemptible conman Routh, it runs out of vim. The Oxford scenes are long-winded and singularly unamusing, populated by stereotyped dons and ghastly children of the sort that ought to be strangled at birth. When the action “shifts gear” into a more thrillerish line, the book becomes merely dull: chases and abductions are inadequate compensation for an absence of detective interest and the irrelevance of Appleby. At the end, a rather surprising villain is revealed, surprising only because the book relies, as it should never do, on a single clue.
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