Decision at Delphi, Helen MacInnes
Decision at Delphi, Helen MacInnes
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Decision at Delphi

Author: Helen MacInnes

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 19 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/29/2022


Synopsis

Just another routine overseas assignment. That’s what successful young New York architect Ken Strang thought when a national travel magazine sent him to Europe to sketch Greek ruins.What he did not know, until it was too late, was that from the moment he boarded the ship, he had become the pawn in a murderous game of international intrigue.To Strang, danger was no object. He could take care of himself, but he had reckoned without Cecilia, his beautiful photographer. When he fell in love with her, he gave his enemies the one weapon they needed.

About Helen MacInnes

Helen MacInnes (1907–1985) was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels. Dubbed “the queen of spy writers,” her books have sold more than twenty-five million copies in the United States alone and have been translated into over twenty-two languages. Several of her books have been adapted into films, such as Above Suspicion (1943), with Joan Crawford, and The Salzburg Connection (1972).

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.


Reviews

3.33 stars. Helen MacInnes is a great weaver of spy stories set during the aftermath of WWII and the Cold War era. In this 1960 novel, set in Greece, American architect/artist Ken Strang gets involved in some plotting by nihilists and communists to cause civil disturbances in Greece and the surround......more

It's 1960 and Athens is a hotbed of espionage and intrigue, but Ken Strang doesn't care. He is an architect, and he is in Greece to draw reconstructions of several of the numerous famous ruins scattered throughout the country. However, his friendships with Greek people who belong to different ideolo......more

Goodreads review by Kim

I read this book once upon a time as a teen-ager, and I focused then on the suspense, romance, and the locales that I longed to see one day. I am sure I read the parts about the complex politics of the region and the ever-changing landscape of alliances and betrayals that was partisan fighting durin......more