Horizon, Helen MacInnes
Horizon, Helen MacInnes
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Horizon

Author: Helen MacInnes

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 6 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/11/2022

Synopsis

British soldier Peter Lennox, a POW in an Italian prison camp, is still fighting his own war. An artist in civilian life, his hands bear the scars of wounds received during his capture at the fall of Tobruk, and he suspects he will never paint again. The only thing that sustains him is plotting his escapes, no matter how many times he is recaptured. But in September 1943 the Italians surrender to the Allies, and Lennox is free. Wanting nothing more than to return to the fighting, he is instead assigned to the mountains of the South Tyrol as a liaison to a desperate band of resistance fighters.With little more than courage and knowledge of the local terrain, Lennox and his comrades must help pave the way for an Allied push that may change the course of the war.

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 Steven Crossley

Steven Crossley, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, has built a career on both sides of the Atlantic as an actor and audiobook narrator, for which he has won more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. He is a member of the internationally renowned theater company Complicite and has appeared in numerous theater, television, film, and radio dramas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julia on July 23, 2012

Re-read because it was mentioned in someone's review of Above Suspicion which I just re-read and I couldn't remember what this one was about. A British soldier who has been a POW is assigned as a liaison to resistance fighters in the South Tyrol at the end of WWII. He gets bored because not much happ......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on April 11, 2016

Another good one from the WWII era. Peter Lennox is making plans to escape a prison camp when suddenly he and his fellow inmates are released. What will he do now? Where will he go?......more

Goodreads review by Patricia J. Miller on May 17, 2015

Good picture of war Horizon brings back into view WW II and reminds us of the people at home who carried on even when occupied by the enemy. Great read......more

Goodreads review by Susan on February 26, 2015

Not her best, but darned good......more

Goodreads review by Eden on April 07, 2025

Visit JetBlackDragonfly (The Man Who Read Too Much) at www.edenthompson.ca/blog Helen MacInnes has been named the Queen of Spy Writers, and her WWII novels feel credible and immediate, being written at the time. Peter Lennox fought in North Africa and Greece before ending up in an Italian P.O.W camp i......more

Quotes

“The hallmarks of a MacInnes novel of suspense are as individual and as clearly stamped as a Hitchcock thriller.” New York Times, praise for the author

“Helen MacInnes can hang her cloak and dagger right up there with Eric Ambler and Graham Greene” Newsweek, praise for the author

“More class than most adventure writers accumulate in a lifetime.” Chicago Daily News, praise for the author

“Helen MacInnes is totally original. No one writing today creates more realistic, more credible characters than she does.” Alistair MacLean, author of The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, praise for the author

“The queen of spy writers.” Sunday Express (London), praise for the author

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