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Intriguingly, the books that come to mind as distant progenitors of Colin Forbes’
The Vorpal Blade are John Buchan's Richard Hannay thrillers; there's the same continent-spanning feel along with the notion of an ill-assorted yet highly functional group banding together to defeat a wily opponent who threatens the West. Of course, Forbes is always contemporary in his range of references and his protagonists (homicide cop Tweed and his SIS colleagues Paula Grey and Bob Newman) have little in common with Buchan’s gentleman adventurers. But Forbes more than stands comparison with his illustrious predecessor and the action here has a kinetic quality that leaps off the page.
A series of grisly murder cases land on Tweed’s desk and he's obliged to revert to his role as Homicide Superintendent at the Yard. But he's still Deputy Director of the SIS and he can call on his usual team. As he realises the imposing organisation that's behind the systematic slayings, he travels from Bray in Britain to Maine in the USA (via Montreux and Switzerland) and finds he's dealing with no-one less than Russell Straub, the US vice president. Straub may soon be the most powerful man in the world--but what is his connection with the bizarre Arbogast family? It's Tweed's colleague, the shrewd and tough Paula Grey, who finally tracks down the knife-wielder--with terrifying results.
Forbes' breathtaking productivity (this is his 28th novel) has never led him into mere by-rote word spinning (unlike several of his contemporaries) and this is a dizzying ride of a thriller, barrelling unstoppably to a grim closure. --Barry Forshaw
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
by Colin Forbes
by Colin Forbes
by Colin Forbes
by Colin Forbes
by Colin Forbes
