Ride a Pale Horse, Helen MacInnes
Ride a Pale Horse, Helen MacInnes
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Ride a Pale Horse

Author: Helen MacInnes

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Unabridged: 12 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/12/2023

Synopsis

When journalist Karen Cornell is invited to a peace conference in Prague, she only goes on the understanding that she will be granted a valuable interview. Instead she finds herself chosen for a more hazardous task: carrying top-secret documents from a potential Czech defector back to Washington. With the papers safely in the hands of Peter Bristow, the one CIA man Karen can trust, she is sure her part in the drama is over, but soon she is pulled into an astonishing web of blackmail, assassination and treason at the highest level. There is a mole in the CIA and it is Bristow’s job to find it, as well as protecting Karen from an unknown enemy.With Karen’s life in danger and time running out, they must uncover a plot that threatens the very heart of US Intelligence.

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 Marguerite Gavin

Marguerite Gavin is a seasoned theater veteran, a five-time nominee for the prestigious Audie Award, and the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones and Publishers Weekly awards. She has been an actor, director, and audiobook narrator for her entire professional career. With over four hundred titles to her credit, her narration spans nearly every genre, from nonfiction to mystery, science fiction, fantasy, romance, and children’s fiction. AudioFile magazine says, “Marguerite Gavin…has a sonorous voice, rich and full of emotion.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeff on September 28, 2019

Another good cold war espionage thriller by Ms. MacInnes. Well written with a good plot. To those who think it is outdated please try to remember it was published in 1984 when there was no such thing as e-mail and the internet was not active. The only problem I had with the book was that the lead ch......more

Goodreads review by Elisabeth on June 08, 2020

But what about language as it was used, what about history as it was being made? What about distortions that could end as apparent facts, be accepted as established truth? There had always been that danger: the victors wrote the history books. But today—with the far reach of television and radio,......more

Goodreads review by Gerald on April 01, 2012

The author’s final work, the only one with a heroine, happens to be my favorite. A respected journalist is invited to a Soviet propaganda conference. Not her cup of tea, but she learns that she may have access to a very special interview. However, she, instead, is approached by a high-level KGB offi......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on August 23, 2010

Favorite Helen MacInnes (well, okay tied with The Salzburg Connection). This is another author whose books are not yet available in e-format. Hope they come over soon. My paperbacks are getting tattered.......more

Goodreads review by Mike on July 24, 2016

This tale of spies and counterspies in the late Cold War era is well plotted and fast paced. Unlike many of its genre, it is almost believable: there's none of the James Bond flamboyance about the good guys, and the bad guys are fallible humans, not monsters. Of course, it's dated, dealing with thin......more

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