Pray For A Brave Heart [Hardcover]

Helen MacInnes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 13, 1955

A suspense novel that reaches its climaz in a peaceful Swiss village where the fabulous Herz diamonds and the fight for men's minds are fatefully linked.

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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: 311 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (January 13, 1955)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0151739013
• ISBN-13: 978-0151739011
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,896,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars best of the cold war anti commie writers, best of her work, August 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Pray For A Brave Heart (Hardcover)

Given the cold war mentality here, this is a well paced, interesting story that has always been one of my favorite books. The characters are, to me, engrossing and, the good guys, at least, believable. The scenery is always fascinating-the writer, who has been deceased for some years now, must have lived in the areas she wrote about, and the innocent American abroad theme is always well served in her hands, particularly since he is avenging the death of his old war friend.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars favorite story, April 24, 2011

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S. Surles "vqqb12a" (Charlotte, north carolina United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pray For A Brave Heart (Hardcover)

I agree with the previous reviewers. This is my favorite of all of her books and one of my all time favorite stories. The main characters are well drawn and amusing. I have often wondered if she and her husband were the basis for the married couple in the story. She does the innocent American overseas the best of anyone I know. It is very cold war mentality, and dates because of that, but has aged well in my opinion. A later book tells you what eventually happens to Keppler, but I don't think the other characters are ever mentioned again.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, September 15, 2001

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Catherine (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pray for a Brave Heart (Mass Market Paperback)

I love all of Helen MacInnes's books, and this is no exception. The characters are appealing and the plot engrossing.