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Peter Ashton #1
Hostile Intent (CH)
'One of the deftest wielders of cloak-and-dagger in the business.' - LITERARY REVIEW. Peter Ashton has been sent to Germany to report on the death of a captain in the Intelligence Corps, murdered after a riot in Dresden by neo-Nazi thugs. Immediately after his meeting with beautiful Galina Kutuzova, Ashton is encouraged to report back with the acceptable explanation for the death - pure accident. However, after an unofficial trip to Russia, he realizes how important Galina is. Learning that she has fled to America and that silencing her is high on someone's list of priorities, Ashton sets out to rescue her.
496 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 1993
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About the author
Clive Egleton
68Ìýbooks7ÌýfollowersClive (Frederick William) Egleton was a British author of spy novels.
He enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps in 1945 to train as a tank driver while still underage. He was subsequently commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment for whom he served in India, Hong Kong, Germany, Egypt, Cyprus, The Persian Gulf and East Africa. He retired in 1975 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
His novel Seven Days to a Killing was filmed as The Black Windmill, starring Michael Caine. Escape to Athena is a novelization of the 1979 movie of the same name.
He enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps in 1945 to train as a tank driver while still underage. He was subsequently commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment for whom he served in India, Hong Kong, Germany, Egypt, Cyprus, The Persian Gulf and East Africa. He retired in 1975 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
His novel Seven Days to a Killing was filmed as The Black Windmill, starring Michael Caine. Escape to Athena is a novelization of the 1979 movie of the same name.
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February 27, 2018
Excellent Read
Don't miss this first of many adventures of Peter Ashton s in an attempt to right the stupid thinking of SIS mismanagement. Clive Egerton is master in his craft as a writer as well as presenter at RMA Sandhurst.
Don't miss this first of many adventures of Peter Ashton s in an attempt to right the stupid thinking of SIS mismanagement. Clive Egerton is master in his craft as a writer as well as presenter at RMA Sandhurst.
April 3, 2010
A slow start almost made me give up, but at the end Egletton had tied everything together as the story rushed to it's end.
This is an end of the cold war thriller as the Soviet Union is falling apart and pulling it's troops out of Eastern Europe.
This is an end of the cold war thriller as the Soviet Union is falling apart and pulling it's troops out of Eastern Europe.
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October 8, 2015i want to read it but it doesn't work what me to do
October 26, 2007
NO offense but I think this book is pretty boring...I don't really understand the storyline.
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