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Overview: Gavin Tudor Lyall (1932 – 2003) was an English author of espionage thrillers.
Lyall was born in Birmingham, then in Warwickshire (now West Midlands), England, as the son of a local accountant, and educated at King Edward’s School, Birmingham. After completing his two years of National Service, 1951 to 1953, as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force flying Gloster Meteors, he went to Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 1956 with honours in English.
In the 1990s Lyall changed literary direction and wrote four semi-historical thrillers about the fledgling British secret service in the years leading up to World War I.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. Spy’s Honour (1993)
Ireland, France, Germany and Hungary comprise the vividly rendered principal locales in this episodic, adventure-filled yarn about the early days of the British Secret Service. In 1912, a nearly bankrupt British officer, Matthew Ranklin, is reduced to being a mercenary in the Greek army and subsequently dragooned into the employ of a Bureau whose existence no one will acknowledge. Dispatched to capture an Irish anarchist, he joins forces with the spirited Conall O’Gilroy, when O’Gilroy decides to switch sides from the Irish nationalists to the British Empire after inadvertently killing a mate. In Paris the pair becomes a trio, as “American enchantress” Corinna Finn steps in when they run afoul of a French Royalist. Subsequent triumphs occur at an annual regatta in Kiel, Germany, and in Hungary, where they foil a plot involving the Archduke Ferdinand (thinking they have staved off the threat of world war). An assumed identity by Ranklin adds delightful complications, while lively dialogue and plotting in the best espionage tradition keep events moving briskly. Evocative period details increase the book’s charm, as does Lyall’s subtle underscoring of the question implicit in his title-in the world of a spy, exactly what is honor?
2. Flight from Honour (1996)
The Italian senator thinks the fledgling British Secret Service can offer him protection from assassins, an aeroplane and the means of fuelling a strike in a Trieste shipyard. Those recruited could accidentally change history in this adventure set in the early days of modern espionage.
3. All Honourable Men (1997)
When a Turkish bandit holds engineers building the Baghdad Railway to ransom, Britain is secretly relieved as the Railway threatens the Persian Gulf oil-fields. Feigning help, the Foreign Office sends the notorious Lady Kelso, once lover of the bandit chief, with Captain Matthew Ranklin and Conall O’Gilroy of the fledgling Secret Service Bureau as ‘diplomatic protection’. A journey by the Kaiser’s private train to the bandit stronghold leads through ambush, betrayal, murder and bombardment. For there are others – German, Turkish and French – honourably putting their countries’ interests above everything. In the misty Turkish mountains, all of Ranklin’s military experience and O’Gilroy’s back-streets savvy are tested to the full
4. Honourable Intentions (1999)
As a young naval officer, King George V kept a mistress in Portsmouth. In 1914 an American anarchist is about to be extradited, until he claims he is the King’s son — and heir to the throne. Charged with the investigation, Captains Ranklin and O’Gilroy discover there is no smoke without gunfire.
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