The fifth book, following "Who Killed Cock Robin", featuring the exploits of Patrick Gillard and his best-selling novelist wife Ingrid Langley. The pair become involved in an international terrorist network and have to call on every skill they ever learned to avoid a particularly unpleasant death.
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From Publishers Weekly
Self-consciously cute and loaded with indecipherable Briticisms, this spy-comedy-mystery imported from England hasn't traveled well. Duffy's protagonists, Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley, who appeared previously in Death of a Raven and A Murder of Crows , are former MI5 intelligence agents now living quietly near Dartmoor, where blustering winds from Scotland now inspire them to dream of a second honeymoon in the Mediterranean. Their plans are aborted, however, when they receive an appeal for help from Patrick's brother Larry, and they're soon in Wales investigating a series of bizarre and malicious events, including the hit-and-run deaths of a boy and girl. Although Duffy tries to make us believe that Patrick and Ingrid are skilled, brilliant operatives, they fall all too easily into the clutches of thugs who run a survival school that trains international terrorists. We can guess why Patrick has been lugging around an antique naval cannon; it will surely go off before the book ends. It does, leaving the silly plot in ruins.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Now that Falklands hero Major Patrick Gillard has been forced to resign from D-12, the supersecret section of British Intelligence (Who Killed Cock Robin?, 1990), and his novelist wife (also a D-12 member) has finished her manuscript, they're planning a third honeymoon--when Patrick's brother Larry, a schoolmaster overseeing an Outward Bound-like program, asks for help: someone has been sabotaging his outings. The Gillards tackle the survival course with disastrous results: Larry is wounded and hospitalized, while husband and wife are captured by a former nemesis, Lyndberne, now operating a school for terrorists and eager to use Patrick and Ingrid for torture/interrogation practice. Lots of humiliation, pain, and truth-serum injections later, the Gillards (with an assist from another D-12 member) succeed in dispatching the villains--but the emotional cost is high. Appalling torture sequences, but Duffy's specialty--the contrary nature's response to love--is highlighted here to good effect. A nice return to jangling form after the rather tiresome Cock Robin. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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