The Peking target

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Playboy Press, Jan 1, 1982 - Fiction - 280 pages
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After the murder of a colleague, Quiller, a seasoned espionage agent, poses as the Secretary of State's bodyguard on a visit to China in order to flush out the killers

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
14
Section 3
23
Copyright

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About the author (1982)

Author Trevor Dudley-Smith was born in Kent, England on February 17, 1920. He attended Yardley Court Preparatory School and Sevenoaks School. During World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force as a flight engineer. After the war, he started writing full-time. He lived in Spain and France before moving to the United States and settling in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1946 he used the pseudonym Elleston Trevor for a non-mystery book, and later made it his legal name. He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Adam Hall, Simon Rattray, Mansell Black, Trevor Burgess, Roger Fitzalan, Howard North, Warwick Scott, Caesar Smith, and Lesley Stone. Even though he wrote thrillers, mysteries, plays, juvenile novels, and short stories, his best-known works are The Flight of the Phoenix written as Elleston Trevor and the series about British secret agent Quiller written as Adam Hall. In 1965, he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award by Mystery Writers of America and the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for The Quiller Memorandum. This book was made into a 1967 movie starring George Segal and Alec Guinness. He died of cancer on July 21, 1995.

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TitleThe Peking target
AuthorsElleston Trevor, Adam Hall
PublisherPlayboy Press, 1982
ISBN0872237559, 9780872237551
Length280 pages
Subjects › 

Beijing (China)
British
British/ China/ Fiction
Fiction / General
Intelligence officers
Intelligence officers/ Fiction
Intelligence service
Korea
Quiller (Fictitious character)
Quiller (Fictitious character)/ Fiction
  
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