2 books by Stephen Barlay
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Overview: Born Istvàn Bokor to a Jewish family in Budapest. Barlay’s childhood was marked by a massacre in the block in which he lived, the loss of his father to forced labour and many other family members to the Auschwitz deportations. After the Second World War, Barlay became a radio journalist.
On 23 October 1956, Barlay was in the headquarters of Hungarian radio as the first shots of the revolution were fired outside. With the Soviet invasion under way, and arrest imminent, he escaped from Hungary, accompanied by Àgi, the woman he had married weeks before and with whom he would spend the rest of his life.
From the moment he arrived, he saw Britain as his home, although his first novel was based on the events of 1956. Four Black Cars, written with another refugee, the film director Peter Sasdy, began a career that resulted in 14 books. Barlay wrote most of his books in English – his adopted language. He wrote investigative works such as Sex Slavery (1968), Aircrash Detective (1969), Fire (1972) and Double Cross (1973), about industrial espionage. A BBC TV adaptation of the latter, The Double Dealers, was broadcast in 1974. His fiction includes the 1976 thriller Blockbuster, the plot of which involved a wartime munitions ship that still lies wrecked in the Thames estuary.
Barlay suffered a stroke in 2008 and passed away three years later. He was survived by his wife Àgi and sons Nick and Robin Barlay.
Genre: Thriller
Lovers of War
The Vietnam War is over.
Americans and Vietnamese alike are fleeing the past horrors of war and those that could await them under the new regime.
Among those preparing to leave is Dan Deacon, an American soldier waiting at the Last Fortress America embassy in Saigon, for the appearance of his Vietnamese fiancée Linh-Lan, and their daughter Mary-Mai.
But when they fail to show up at the embassy to claim their priority clearance for evacuation, the future he had planned playing happy families in America is shattered.
Instead he returns alone, trying to forget Vietnam.
But Deacon, haunted by the unknown fate of his beloved, cannot move on.
After failing to reintegrate into suburban American life and a stint in prison, he soon returns to Asia, along with fellow Vietnam vet and drifter, Cream.
His mission – to find out what happened to Linh-Lan and Mary-Mai.
His search takes him from refugee camps to the South China Sea, where pirates roam, attacking and robbing the helpless refugee boats that stream in their thousands from war-torn Vietnam.
Was this the fate that befell Linh-Lan and their daughter?
After becoming embroiled with the Hong Kong underworld, his mission seems increasingly suicidal, but Deacon will not rest until he finds them.
But the question remains if this is a noble act of revenge, or simply evidence that Deacon cannot give up the thrill and violence of war?
Cuban Confetti
1962. The fear of sparking World War III permeates the air as the relations between Russia, Cuba, and the United States of America grow more and more strained…
Why are so many Russian freighters bound for Cuba?
What does the Russian expression porokhovyye konfety mean?
Why does it appear on a shopping list stolen from Castro’s desk?
What lures buccaneering Helm Rust away from his idle life in the Florida Keys surrounded by women and booze — and, more importantly, why?
Although prematurely retired from the CIA, Rust is still a player in the game, a compulsive risk-taker with deep-seated loyalties and ties to The Company that could prove to be an occupational hazard.
With one eye on Cuba and another on the Soviet Union, he is quick to sense there is a game in the air.
What instinct cannot tell him, however, is that those bizarre words — porokhovyye konfety, translated as ‘powdered sweets’ — have the potential to make him the hottest property in one of the hottest games ever.
Receiving word that his father is in trouble in Moscow, Rust sets out on a perilous journey that just might cost him his life — and discovers that the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
Through the fraught events of that summer and autumn, Rust discovers that patriotism and betrayal are not such strange bedfellows after all…
But there are still loyalties to be honoured and debts to be paid.
The real question: How far are the Soviet Union and the United States willing to go?
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