Helen MacInnes war eine schottisch-amerikanische Autorin von Spionageromanen, deren Werke sich mit den komplexen Welten von Intrigen und internationaler Spannung befassten. Ihr Schreiben zeichnete sich durch sorgfältige Recherche und die Fähigkeit aus, den Leser in spannende Handlungsstränge einzubeziehen. MacInnes verstand es meisterhaft, packende Erzählungen mit psychologischen Charakterstudien zu verbinden. Ihre Romane untersuchten Themen wie Verrat, Loyalität und moralische Dilemmata in einem globalen Kontext.
I Athen efter Anden Verdenskrig følger vi Kenneth Strang, en amerikansk soldat, der vender tilbage for at arbejde med græsk arkitektur. Han opdager, at hans ven, fotografen Stefanos Kladas, er forsvundet, og kærligheden til Cecilie Hillard blomstrer. Mystiske hændelser og fortidens hemmeligheder truer fredens genoprettelse.
After years of war, Ulysses finally returns to Ithaca. Rather than the joyous welcome he had hoped for, he finds his palace full of suitors, all scheming to possess his wife, and Penelope is wondering why it has taken him seven years to get home.
David Bosworth and Penelope Lorrimer seem to have everything against them. He is a penniless Oxford undergraduate; she is the daughter of a well-to-do Edinburgh family. Nevertheless they defy the gulf between them, and the opposition they encounter draws them closer.
Nothing could shake William Denning's resolve to leave the army and return to the States. Nothing, except one of the largest diamond hauls ever - which, in the wrong hands, on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, was a potentially lethal force. In the Swiss mountains, Denning discovered not only a jewellery robbery at stake, but a ruthless world.
Twenty-one years ago, with the Allies on their heels, the Nazis hid a sealed chest in the dark, forbidding waters of the Finstersee, a lake surrounded by the brooding peaks of the Austrian Alps. One of the few men who knows of its existence is Richard Bryant, a British agent.
American diplomat Payton Pleydell and his wife Sylvia are the most respected, brilliant couple in Washington. Theirs seems a perfect marriage but Kate Jerold begins to suspect that her cousin's husband is not as devoted as he seems. Then the unexpected arrival of a Czech official threatens to bring the façade crashing down. Even after six years apart, Sylvia has not forgotten Jan Brovic; during the war they had been deeply, secretly in love. But now there is a new war, and former allies have become bitter enemies. Jan is on the other side and his motives may not be pure. Separated by the enmity of nations, Sylvia must decide whether to risk everything to be with the man she loves.
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A thriller by the author of "North from Rome", "Prelude to Terror", "Snare of the Hunter", "Ride a Pale Horse", "Unconquerable" and "Message from Malaga".
Intermezzo in Prag - bk338; Bastei Lübbe Verlag; Helen MacInnes; pocket_book; 1987