[TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E"] 15-02-2009, 12:39 PM[/TD] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E, align: right"] #Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link[/TD] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Trí thức Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Tham gia ngày: Sep 2008 Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi Bài gởi: 361 Xin cảm ơn: 149 Được cảm ơn 4,613 lần trong 343 bài Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Gavin Lyall (1932-2003) [HR][/HR]Gavin Tudor Lyall (May 9, 1932 - January 18, 2003) was a English author of espionage thrillers. Lyall won the British Crime Writers' Association's Silver Dagger award in both 1964 and 1965. Up to the publication in 1975 of Judas Country, Lyall's work falls into two groups. The aviation thrillers (The Wrong Side Of The Sky, The Most Dangerous Game, Shooting Script, and Judas Country), and what might be called "Euro-thrillers" revolving around international crime in Europe (Midnight Plus One, Venus With Pistol, and Blame The Dead). All these books were written in the first person, with a sardonic style reminiscent of the "hard-boiled private-eye" genre. Despite the commercial success of his work, Lyall began to feel that he was falling into a predicable pattern, and abandoned both his earlier genres, and the first-person narrative, for his “Harry Maxim" series of espionage thrillers beginning with The Secret Servant published in 1980. This book, originally developed for a proposed BBC TV Series, featured Major Harry Maxim, an SAS officer assigned as a security adviser to 10 Downing Street, and was followed by three sequels with the same central cast of characters. In the 1990s Lyall changed literary direction once again, and wrote four semi-historical thrillers about the fledgling British secret service in the years leading up to World War I. __________________ Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise...- George Gershwin [/TD] [TD="class: alt2, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"] [/TD] [/TABLE]
Harry Maxim series [TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E"] 15-02-2009, 12:41 PM[/TD] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E, align: right"] #Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link[/TD] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Trí thức Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Tham gia ngày: Sep 2008 Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi Bài gởi: 361 Xin cảm ơn: 149 Được cảm ơn 4,613 lần trong 343 bài Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Harry Maxim series [HR][/HR]1. The Secret Servant (1980) 2. The Conduct of Major Maxim (1982) 3. The Crocus List (1985) 4. Uncle Target (1988) ====================== The Secret Servant (1980) Former SAS Major Harry Maxim is assigned to Number 10 Downing Street as a special assistant to George Harbiner, private secretary to the Prime Minister, following the suicide of his predecessor with the British Secret Service. Maxim is assigned to protect Professor John White Tyler, Britain's premier military strategist on nuclear weapons policy and famed war hero (as well as an insatiable lecher). Tyler’s many enemies, including local pacifists, leftists, and radical students, as well as the KGB will do anything, perhaps even murder to keep Tyler from addressing a NATO summit in Luxembourg. However, are various events surrounding Tyler related? Such as a hand grenade thrown through the door to the Prime Minister's residence, or the death of a Czech defector? Assisted by MI-5 liaison officer Alice Algar, Maxim must uncover a horrific secret from Tyler's wartime past in order to prevent a massive foreign relations disaster, as well as keeping Tyler alive. File Kèm Theo Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link (275.4 KB, 188 lần tải) __________________ Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise...- George Gershwin [/TD] [TD="class: alt2, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"] [/TD] [/TABLE] File đính kèm: View attachment 1980-the_secret_servant.rar
Harry Maxim series [TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E"] 15-02-2009, 12:43 PM[/TD] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E, align: right"] #Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link[/TD] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Trí thức Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Tham gia ngày: Sep 2008 Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi Bài gởi: 361 Xin cảm ơn: 149 Được cảm ơn 4,613 lần trong 343 bài Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Harry Maxim series [HR][/HR]The Conduct of Major Maxim (1982) Former SAS Major Harry Maxim is assigned to Number 10 Downing Street, where he works under George Harbinger, private secretary to the Prime Minister. Maxim is asked by a former colleague to assist Corporal Ron Blagg, who has gone AWOL from the British Army after assisting MI6 in a botched undercover operation. However, Maxim soon discovers that both MI6 and a shadowy Sovbloc service are looking for Blagg, with deadly consequences. Maxim's efforts to assist Blagg are stymied by a web of deceit and suspicion among the various offices and agencies within the British government, until he uncovers a secret from the darkest days of World War II so threatening to the leadership of the German Democratic Republic that they will kill to preserve it. The various settings for most of the action, housing projects in South London, a small rural town in Germany, and a fading port town in Humberside, are described in rich detail. File Kèm Theo Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link (292.4 KB, 165 lần tải) __________________ Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise...- George Gershwin [/TD] [TD="class: alt2, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"] [/TD] [/TABLE] File đính kèm: View attachment 1982-the_conduct_of_major_maxim.rar
Harry Maxim series [TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E"] 15-02-2009, 12:44 PM[/TD] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E, align: right"] #Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link[/TD] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Trí thức Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Tham gia ngày: Sep 2008 Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi Bài gởi: 361 Xin cảm ơn: 149 Được cảm ơn 4,613 lần trong 343 bài Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Harry Maxim series [HR][/HR]The Crocus List (1985) Former SAS Major Harry Maxim, reassigned from Number 10 Downing Street back to the Ministry of Defence after the demotion of his boss George Harbinger from the post of private secretary to the Prime Minister, is part of a security detail at Westminster Abbey for a state funeral. The guest list includes the Queen of England and the President of the United States, as well as numerous other heads of state of various NATO member nations. Political tensions with the Soviet Union are at an all time high over Berlin, and Maxim is worried that the gathering would be an all-too-tempting target. He is right. Shots are fired, and a low-ranking British civil servant standing next to the President is killed. The assassin kills himself before he can be apprehended and is found to be carrying an old Soviet sniper rifle. All fingers point to the KGB. However, Maxim is far from convinced, and his investigation into the shooting takes him from London to Washington DC, (where he is reunited with MI-5 liaison officer Agnes Algar), and from there to New York, the American Midwest and finally to East Berlin, as he unravels a conspiracy of massive proportions, which threatens to overthrow not only the British government, but all hopes for peace in Europe. File Kèm Theo Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link (316.7 KB, 163 lần tải) __________________ Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise...- George Gershwin [/TD] [TD="class: alt2, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"] [/TD] [/TABLE] File đính kèm: View attachment 1985-the_crocus_list.rar
Novels [TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E"] 15-02-2009, 12:48 PM[/TD] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E, align: right"] #Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link[/TD] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Trí thức Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Tham gia ngày: Sep 2008 Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi Bài gởi: 361 Xin cảm ơn: 149 Được cảm ơn 4,613 lần trong 343 bài Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Novels [HR][/HR]1. The Wrong Side of the Sky (1961) 2. The Most Dangerous Game (1963) 3. Midnight Plus One (1965) 4. Shooting Script (1966) 5. Venus with Pistol (1969) 6. Blame the Dead (1972) 7. Judas Country (1975) ======================= The Wrong Side of the Sky (1961) Jack Clay, an ex-Royal Air Force military transport makes a threadbare living flying charter cargo flights of dubious legitimacy around the Mediterranean and other parts of Europe in an old Douglas DC-3. His dreams of having his own airplane and own charter company are rapidly fading due to age and lack of money, but at least he is flying. While in Athens, Greece he has a chance encounter with an old wartime friend and rival pilot, Ken Kitson, when he lands in a luxurious private Piaggio P.166. Kitson is personal pilot to the immensely wealthy former-Nawab of Tungabhadra in Pakistan, who is searching the world for his family's heirloom jewels, which had been stolen by a British charter pilot during the Partition of India. However, the Nawab is not the only one looking for the missing jewels, and is not the only one who would cheat, steal or murder to find them first. File Kèm Theo Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link (309.3 KB, 163 lần tải) __________________ Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise...- George Gershwin [/TD] [TD="class: alt2, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"] [/TD] [/TABLE] File đính kèm: View attachment 1961_the_wrong_side_of_the_sky.rar
Novels [TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E"] 21-02-2009, 08:15 PM[/TD] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E, align: right"] #Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link[/TD] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Trí thức Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Tham gia ngày: Sep 2008 Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi Bài gởi: 361 Xin cảm ơn: 149 Được cảm ơn 4,613 lần trong 343 bài Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Novels [HR][/HR]The Most Dangerous Game (1963) Bill Cary is a bush pilot living in Lapland in northern Finland, making a precarious living flying aerial survey flights looking for nickel deposits, and occasional charter cargo flights of dubious legitimacy in his beat-up old de Havilland Beaver. Towards the end of the flying season, a wealthy American hunter hires him to fly into a prohibited part of Finland near the Soviet border in order to hunt bear. Subsequently, he is assaulted by thugs when he refuses a charter contract to search for a lost Tsarist treasure, comes under suspicion from the Finnish police for smuggling when Tsarist-era gold sovereigns start turning up, and from the Finnish secret police for espionage. However, things get more serious when the wealthy American's hunter's beautiful sister turns up to search for her brother, and his fellow bush pilots start getting killed off in a series of suspicious accidents. Carr suspects that the events he in increasingly involved in may stem from an incident in his wartime past. Some sources say that Lyall won the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger for The Most Dangerous Game as the runner-up for the best thriller of 1964. File Kèm Theo Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link (269.1 KB, 154 lần tải) __________________ Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise...- George Gershwin [/TD] [TD="class: alt2, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"] [/TD] [/TABLE] File đính kèm: View attachment 1963_the_most_dangerous_game.rar
Novels [TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E"] 21-02-2009, 08:16 PM[/TD] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E, align: right"] #Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link[/TD] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Trí thức Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Tham gia ngày: Sep 2008 Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi Bài gởi: 361 Xin cảm ơn: 149 Được cảm ơn 4,613 lần trong 343 bài Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Novels [HR][/HR]Midnight Plus One (1965) Lewis Cane was once a hero; under the nickname Caneton he was an SOE operative in the French resistance. After the war, he hasn't really found what he wants to do, until an expensive lawyer hires him to transport a businessman across France. Magonhard can't just travel in the usual manner; not only are his enemies seeking to stop him, but then have also arranged a false accusation of rape to ensure that the police will also be looking for him. He needs to arrive in Liechtenstein as soon as possible, to save a business that the death of one of his partners seems set to destroy. The journey is partly about Caneton showing that he is still competent in this kind of work, but more interestingly also about him coming to terms not just with his own history but with the realisation that the past is past and that this is no longer what he does. It makes the novel more than a run of the mill thriller, as Lyall examines a side of "the hero" not so commonly part of the genre - what happens when the time for heroism is past. Cane is a contrast to the other man accompanying the party across France: an alcoholic bodyguard unable to cope psychologically with the work that he is supremely gifted in - another interesting character. An excellent thriller, well worth reading. File Kèm Theo Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link (290.9 KB, 141 lần tải) __________________ Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise...- George Gershwin [/TD] [TD="class: alt2, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"] [/TD] [/TABLE] File đính kèm: View attachment 1965-midnight_plus_one (1).rar
Novels [TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E"] 21-02-2009, 08:18 PM[/TD] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E, align: right"] #Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link[/TD] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Trí thức Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Tham gia ngày: Sep 2008 Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi Bài gởi: 361 Xin cảm ơn: 149 Được cảm ơn 4,613 lần trong 343 bài Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Novels [HR][/HR]Shooting Script (1966) Keith Carr, an ex-Royal Air Force fighter pilot with combat experience in the Korean War is now living in Jamaica, where he makes a threadbare living flying charter cargo flights around the Caribbean in his mortgaged second-hand de Havilland Dove. After a rival pilot from his Korean War days lands a high-priced job commanding a squadron of de Havilland Vampire jet fighters for the hard-line military dictators on the nearby “Republica Libre”, Carr suddenly finds life more difficult. For some reason, the United States FBI is keeping him under surveillance. Republica Libre at first offers him a job, and then impounds his plane when he refuses – and one of his flying students ends up murdered. Carr is hired by the flamboyant movie director Walt Whitmore, who is filming an action movie on the north coast of Jamaica, and Carr is assigned to fly an old World War II vintage B-25 Mitchell medium bomber as a camera plane. However, it soon becomes apparent that Whitmore has more in mind for Carr and the decrepit bomber than just making a film. File Kèm Theo Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link (303.6 KB, 143 lần tải) __________________ Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise...- George Gershwin [/TD] [TD="class: alt2, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"] [/TD] [/TABLE] File đính kèm: View attachment 1966-shooting_script.rar
Novels [TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E"] 21-02-2009, 08:19 PM[/TD] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E, align: right"] #Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link[/TD] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Trí thức Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Tham gia ngày: Sep 2008 Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi Bài gởi: 361 Xin cảm ơn: 149 Được cảm ơn 4,613 lần trong 343 bài Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Novels [HR][/HR]Blame the Dead (1972) James Card loses his reputation as a bodyguard when his client, a Lloyd's underwriter, is shot right under his nose. So he begins research into the dead man's background. File Kèm Theo Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link (347.5 KB, 133 lần tải) __________________ Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise...- George Gershwin [/TD] [TD="class: alt2, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"] [/TD] [/TABLE] File đính kèm: View attachment 1972-blame_the_dead.rar
Novels [TABLE="class: tborder, width: 100%, align: center"] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E"] 21-02-2009, 08:20 PM[/TD] [TD="class: thead, bgcolor: #3A758E, align: right"] #Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link[/TD] [TD="class: alt2, width: 175, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"]Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Trí thức Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link Tham gia ngày: Sep 2008 Nơi Cư Ngụ: Hanoi Bài gởi: 361 Xin cảm ơn: 149 Được cảm ơn 4,613 lần trong 343 bài Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link [/TD] [TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #F8F7F4"] Novels [HR][/HR]Judas Country (1975) Roy Case, an ex-Royal Air Force military transport makes a threadbare living flying charter cargo flights around the Mediterranean in an old Beechcraft Queen Air. His dreams of having his own airplane and own charter company rapidly fading due to age and lack of money, but at least he is flying. However, conditions rapidly spiral out of control when he lands in Cyprus. Not only did his employers go bankrupt, leaving him stranded and without pay, but his plane is impounded, he is mugged by mysterious assailants on a dark back street, and is trailed by an Israeli Mossad agent. When he finds that the cases clearly marked “champagne” that he was supposed to be flying to Lebanon contain machine guns instead, he suspects that things are going to get a lot worse. When Case's friend Cavitt shows up, fresh from an Israeli prison, together with a mysterious Austrian archaeologist and his even more mysterious daughter, the plot thickens with hidden Crusader treasure, Lebanese gangsters, betrayal and murder. File Kèm Theo Vui lòng đăng nhập hoặc đăng ký để xem link (304.8 KB, 142 lần tải) __________________ Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise...- George Gershwin [/TD] [TD="class: alt2, bgcolor: #F4F2ED"] [/TD] [/TABLE] File đính kèm: View attachment 1972-blame_the_dead.rar
