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Overview: Victor Canning was a prolific writer of novels and thrillers who flourished in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, but whose reputation has faded since his death in 1986. He was personally reticent, writing no memoirs and giving relatively few newspaper interviews.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
A Forest of Eyes
Yugoslavia before Marshal Tito’s break with Russia. In a café facing the harbour of Dubrovnik two Englishmen are sitting, watched by Zarko, the Chief of Police. Robert Hudson, an engineer, has known John Raikes for only three weeks-Raikes has been introduced to him as a technical consultant from the British Board of Trade, and the two of them are completing negotiations for the supply of certain machinery to the Yugoslav Government. Within a few hours Raikes is reported dead-"a tragic accident while bathing," says Zarko. Hudson, alone in an atmosphere of ill-concealed hostility, determines to fulfil a mission of which he himself has only a hazy knowledge.
Bird of Prey aka Venetian Bird
Edward Mercer’s mission had seemed so simple. A benevolent, unknown American father wished to repay a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued his son during the war. A man who carried the broken-legged boy for two days through snow to receive the medical help he desperately needed. A man who then disappeared. A hero. That man was Gian Uccello.
Mercer, an ageing man for hire struggling to maintain his relevance in a young person’s world, heads to Venice to track down Uccello. However, finding him proves no easy task as his search unearths secrets, lies, assumed identities and an incendiary conspiracy. Surrounded by beautiful women, vicious gangsters, disbelieving police and precious few allies, he finds himself falling down a rabbit hole he never saw coming. But Edward Mercer is a -stubborn and stupid man- who won’t be bought off nor accept the constant lies he is fed, so he pursues the case to its tense and potentially fatal conclusion.
The colourful Venetian background is brilliantly drawn and the story unfolds with the speed, realism, excitement and suspense which one expects from Victor Canning, a master story-teller.
Queen’s Pawn
Handsome, brilliant young conman Andrew Raikes is set to swap the hustle for a life of quiet luxury and independence in the English countryside. Then, barely two months in to his new life, a letter arrives from a man even more cunning and ruthless than himself. Raikes is soon blackmailed into carrying out one final heist: a crime more audacious and dazzling than anything he has attempted before. Can he pull it off? And will he be able to free himself from the clutches of his blackmailer? Victor Canning weaves riches, glamour and darkness through the world of 1960’s Britain to create this complex, gripping and highly-readable crime thriller.
The Man From the ‘Turkish Slave’ aka A Handful of Silver
The Turkish Slave was dirty, undisciplined and only just sea-worthy, but when Peter Landers was offered a job as Third Officer on the ship, he had little choice but to accept. His divorce had driven him to drink and to one fouled-up opportunity after another-here was his last chance to haul himself back. But it would not be easy-on the Turkish Slave he would be up against a huge international diamond-smuggling syndicate, and it was advised that he cultivate ‘an abnormal regard’ for the safety of his own skin.
The Mask of Memory
Isolation and boredom can do strange things to people. After years and years of too much time on her hands, lonely housewife Margaret Tucker’s mundane routine becomes smattered with odd behaviour.
Her husband, Bernard, is cold and distant. Spending most of his time in London with only infrequent visits back to the marital home, Margaret knows nothing about her husband’s other life and has been all but discarded by the man she once loved.
When Margaret starts losing periods of time and cannot recall her actions she knows things have got to change. But just as she is beginning to rediscover herself, her husband’s mysterious life once again collides with hers . . .
The Scorpio Letters (PDF)
An absolutely breathtaking thriller… Some very complex blackmail, a chase through France during which the hero takes impossible risks, a jolly good double murder in the snow, a gorgeous heroine always there at the crucial moment, and a mad nursing home with imprisoned and brainwashed patients.
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