North From Rome [Hardcover]

Helen MacInnes (Author)

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Publication Date: February 13, 1958

A young American caught in a hazardous game of international intrigue, centering upon a narcotics ring, in contemporary Italy.

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About the Author

Helen Clark MacInnes (October 7, 1907, Glasgow – September 30, 1985, New York City) was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels.

She graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1928 with a degree in French and German. Working as a librarian, she married the classicist Gilbert Highet in 1932 and moved with her husband to New York in 1937.

Among her works are:

• Above Suspicion (1941) made into a film of the same name.
• Assignment in Brittany (1942) made into a film of the same name
• The Unconquerable (1944), also called While Still We Live
• Horizon (1945)
• Friends and Lovers (1947)
• Rest and Be Thankful (1949)
• Neither Five Nor Three (1951)
• I and My True Love (1953)
• Pray for a Brave Heart (1955)
• North from Rome (1958)
• Decision at Delphi (1960)
• The Venetian Affair (1963), made into a film of the same name
• Double Image (1966)
• The Salzburg Connection (1968), made into a film of the same name
• Message from Malaga (1971)
• Snare of the Hunter (1974)
• Agent in Place (1976)
• Home Is the Hunter (1976)
• Prelude to Terror (1978)
• The Hidden Target (1980)
• Cloak of Darkness (1982)
• Ride a Pale Horse (1984)

In 1966 she won the Columba Prize for Literature.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 307 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (February 13, 1958)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0151670013
• ISBN-13: 978-0151670017
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,590,948 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes older is better, December 16, 2002

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Barbara A. Crossno (Fairfield, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: North From Rome (Hardcover)

Helen MacInnes wrote this book 40+ years ago, and it has stood the test of time. Her characters could be transported to the 21st century and not be out of place. (Maybe the heroine is a little more helpless, but there are a lot of females like her today.) Though the setting is the early days of the cold war, it is general enough that that too is still believable. Ms. MacInnes developes strong characters, a rip-roaring, suspensful, action-filled plot; and as a bonus one gets to enjoy a visit to Rome, and the countryside north of it. Anything by Helen MacInnes is a good read!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars North From Rome, September 2, 2007

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Cooper's Antiques "Cooper's Antiques" (Maryville, TN) - See all my reviews

This fictional book is about an American playwright, William Lammiter, who goes to Rome to mend his broken engagement to Eleanor Halley, only to discover that she has become the fiancee of Count Luigi Pirotta, an aristocrat as handsome as he is disquieting. Almost simultaneously, through a dramatic chance encounter with a fascinating Italian girl, Rosana Di Feo, Lammiter finds himself caught in the strange and hazardous game of international intrigue. And deeply enmeshed in it he find Count Luigi Pirotta.