Quiller Solitaire

Through the seventeen Quiller books I’ve read, Hall has sustained his style and drive, maintaining tension and edge-of-seat action and suspense, never flagging. That can’t be said of many prolific authors. Quiller is the spy’s codename. We never know his real name. He uses aliases – Gage, Locke, Lon......more

Quiller, British counter-terrorism's prize ferret, penetrates to the heart of a terrorist cell that aims to down an airliner. Adam Hall (pen name for Elleston Trevor) ranked with Len Deighton as a spy novelist, and Quiller, who is driven by the need to live on the edge, is the ultimate fictional spy......more

Not sure how I stumbled into reading this, but they're pretty quick, entertaining spy reads for airports and the like. An action-filled, generally fast moving spy thriller set against a backdrop of reunified Germany and the Middle East. Although it's somewhat slow to get moving, the tension does bec......more

The early 1990s were a challenging time for espionage thriller writers. With the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, it was difficult to find adversaries that were both convincing and menacing enough to make dramatic villains. China was not yet ready for prime-time as the West’s ne......more