Hostile Intent by Clive Egleton

Peter Ashton #1

by Clive Egleton

Clive Egleton, Britain's leading thriller writer, captures the current political scene in this post-cold war thriller, where the rules have changed, nuclear menace has merely gone underground, and the world's secrets are up for grabs.It is spring of 1991 when a minor British official trading low-grade information with Galina Kutuzova (who appears to be an equally minor Russian informant) is blown up in a neo-Nazi riot in Dresden. To the British government it is a small affair, and Peter Ashton, a mid-ranking and always dependable agent, is asked to arrive at the acceptable explanation that it was a random accident. But after a nearly lethal trip to Leningrad and Moscow, Ashton believes that the suddenly elusive Galina has defected to America - and that silencing her is high on the Russians' list of priorities.To convince the British Foreign Office and the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, Ashton hatches a plan that puts him at extreme personal and professional risk - and at the same time pursues Galina, who must know too much to have fled so far. With gut-wrenching suspense and clear-ringing authenticity, Clive Egleton tightens suspense like a slipknot as American and British agents converge at a Rocky Mountain safe house to pay back the KGB for five decades of hostile intent.

Genres: Espionage, Fiction, Thriller

Hardcover

First published April 1, 1993

About the author

Clive (Frederick William) Egleton was a British author of spy novels.

He enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps in 1945 to train as a tank driver while still underage. He was subsequently commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment for whom he served in India, Hong Kong, Germany, Egypt, Cyprus, The Persian Gulf and East Africa. He retired in 1975 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

His novel Seven Days to a Killing was filmed as The Black Windmill, starring Michael Caine. Escape to Athena is a novelization of the 1979 movie of the same name.

Reviews

[Keith Clarence Greenwood Kyle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent Read

Don't miss this first of many adventures of Peter Ashton s in an attempt to right the stupid thinking of SIS mismanagement. Clive Egerton is master in his craft as a writer as well as presenter at RMA Sandhurst.

[Frank Taranto · Rating 3 out of 5]

A slow start almost made me give up, but at the end Egletton had tied everything together as the story rushed to it's end.
This is an end of the cold war thriller as the Soviet Union is falling apart and pulling it's troops out of Eastern Europe.

[Jomi]

i want to read it but it doesn't work what me to do

[Arrica Lee · Rating 2 out of 5]

NO offense but I think this book is pretty boring...I don't really understand the storyline.