Jon returned. “Come on, Paul, let’s have another drink. I need one. You go ahead and pour it, while I call Peggy. And invent an end to that story, or we’ll never get this bundle to bed.” He lifted Barbara before she could fall, and carried her toward the telephone.
Rona said, “What did Roger Brownlee mean?” She looked at the table, lifted Barbara’s plate and then set it down again. “Did he mean you were going away? Again?” She couldn’t bring herself to say the word war. Instead, she said, “Does he think there will be—trouble?”
Paul said, “He’s a pessimistic kind of optimist.”
But no fool, she thought, no fool. She looked up at Paul. “Oh, no, Paul. Oh, no!”
“Time to worry about that when we come to it—if we come,” he said gently.
“Yes,” she said. She met his eyes. And she smiled for him. The tears in her eyes were for him too. She held out both her hands. “Oh, Paul!” she said.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Helen MacInnes, whom the Sunday Express called ‘the Queen of spy writers’, was the author of many distinguished suspense novels.
Born in Scotland, she studied at the University of Glasgow and University College, London, then went to Oxford after her marriage to Gilbert Highet, the eminent critic and educator. In 1937 the Highets went to New York, and except during her husband’s war service, Helen MacInnes lived there ever since.
Since her first novel Above Suspicion was published in 1941 to immediate success, all her novels have been bestsellers; The Salzburg Connection was also a major film.
Helen MacInnes died in September 1985.
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A series of slick espionage thrillers from the New York Times bestselling “Queen of Spy Writers.”
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North From Rome
Decision at Delphi
The Venetian Affair
The Salzburg Connection
Message From Málaga
While We Still Live
The Double Image
Horizon
Snare of the Hunter
Agent in Place
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“The queen of spy writers.” Sunday Express
“Definitely in the top class.” Daily Mail
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“A sophisticated thriller. The story builds up to an exciting climax.” Times Literary Supplement
“Absorbing, vivid, often genuinely terrifying.” Observer
“She can hang her cloak and dagger right up there with Eric Ambler and Graham Greene.” Newsweek
“An atmosphere that is ready to explode with tension... a wonderfully readable book.” The New Yorker
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THE MATT HELM SERIES
BY DONALD HAMILTON
The long awaited return of the United States’ toughest special agent.
Death of a Citizen (February 2013)
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The Silencers (June 2013)
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The Ambushers (October 2013)
The Shadowers (December 2013)
The Ravagers (February 2014)
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