- Hardcover
- Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 1st Edition edition (1974)
- ISBN-10: 0151831807
- ISBN-13: 978-0151831807
- ASIN: B001CXICPO
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 15 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
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4.6 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews)
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A different type of MacInnes thriller, April 1 2006
By Mike Garrison - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Snare of the Hunter (Hardcover)
Many Helen MacInnes books follow very similar plotlines. Somehow an amateur protagonist gets accidentally involved in a Cold War spy intrigue, and ends up working with Western intelligence agents to help defeat the Soviet-bloc (or occasionally Nazi or ex-Nazi) plot. This book is nothing like that.The hero is not accidentally involved and Western intelligence agencies do not figure into the story at all. Instead, he is part of a conspiracy of amateurs to help smuggle a Czech woman out of her country and into the west, where she can meet up with her famous expatriot father (a novelist). The hero agrees to help because he will be in the right place at the right time -- and because two decades before he had met this woman and fallen in love with her.
However, as the plot progresses it appears that someone in this scheme is working for the other side. And her escape is not so straightforward as it first seems. In fact, she is being used as bait to smoke her father out from hiding.
As this crew of amateurs tries to smuggle her across Austria, through Italy, and into Switzerland, they must figure out how to win an endgame that seems to have already been decided against them. In the process they must battle professional spies without the help of friendly intelligence agents -- help that most of MacInnes's heroes usually can count on.
It's a good book and well worth reading, though not one of MacInnes's very best.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Exciting, Fast Moving, Suspenseful, Oct 25 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Snare of the Hunter (Hardcover)
I loved this book. I love all of her books, but this one especially. You care about the characters, you care about getting Irina to safety. I still have the original copy of this book that I bought when it came out in 1974. I reread it often. I find my self wanting to visit the places that the characters are at in the book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Magic of MacInnes, May 12 2012
By Tom S. "filmfan3" - Published on Amazon.com
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Helen MacInnes was the first major female author in the male-dominated genre of espionage fiction. Her first novel, Above Suspicion, was published in 1942, and for the next 40 years she dominated bestseller lists with 21 excellent novels of international intrigue. Many of her titles seem very dated today, but this one holds up quite well.The plot is a nonstop chase across Europe, as a brave American journalist attempts to smuggle his old flame, the daughter of a Nobel-winning Czech novelist who defected to the West, out from behind the Iron Curtain to join her father. Of course, they're shadowed and threatened by enemy agents every step of the way, and one of the people "helping" them just might be one of the bad guys. Their harrowing journey is as exciting to read now as it was in 1974, when it was first published. From Czechoslovakia to Austria to Switzerland, the story races along to a thrilling conclusion.
MacInnes is a nearly-forgotten giant who deserves to be discovered by new generations. Her spy stories were always exciting and well-written, and even the dated ones are perfect time capsules of the changing political landscape from the 1940s-1980s. If you're interested in trying her books, this one is a good place to start.
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