The Venetian Affair, Helen MacInnes
The Venetian Affair, Helen MacInnes
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The Venetian Affair

Author: Helen MacInnes

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 14 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2022

Synopsis

While on assignment in Paris and Venice, an American journalist works desperately to expose Communist espionage activities.Fenner burned Rosenfeld’s message, reminding himself wryly that he was behaving in the very best tradition. This was a game not too difficult to learn, he thought. A game? A game in deadly earnest. A vacation in Venice that was grim business. A girl constantly beside him who wasn’t his. How the hell had he walked into this upside-down world? Where, he wondered suddenly, would Venice lead?

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 Traber Burns

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on February 19, 2018

Helen MacInnes' 1963 Cold War spy thriller still packs a pretty good punch. Bill Fenner, one of those competent amateur sleuths/spies that MacInnes is fond of, is a drama critic and an ex-journalist, and also an ex-operative of sorts. He travels from New York City to Paris, I think to write a play a......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on October 31, 2019

I rounded my review up from 3.5 stars. MacInnes is one of my favorite authors from the 40's to the 80's but this tale of cold war intrigue is fueled by 3 coincidences, which is two coincidences too many in my book. As always MacInnes is very precise in her words and descriptions. If you can forgive......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on February 11, 2018

Helen MacInnes was one of the top performers in the romantic spy thriller genre of yesteryear. This tale, set in the early 1960s, pits a smart American amateur, Bill Fenner, against a notoriously slippery Soviet operative who is planning a major terrorist attack that will be pinned on the Americans......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on April 29, 2021

I was very pleased when the Helen MacInnes novels began to appear as ebooks in 2013. I marked over half of them as books I wanted to re-read. I discovered Helen MacInnes when I read the paperback of Snare of the Hunter in 1975, and I was hooked. Reading at least seven more of her novels that year, in......more

Goodreads review by Elinor on February 13, 2018

This Cold War thriller requires you to be on your mental toes to keep track of the characters and the somewhat lengthy setup. Once the action moves from Paris to Venice, it's non-stop as the main characters are constantly on the move, trying to outsmart the enemy. Venice, at least in those days, pro......more

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