The Snare of the Hunter [Import] [Mass Market Paperback]

Helen MacInnes (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Fontana; New Ed edition (1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0006144144
• ISBN-13: 978-0006144144
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A different type of MacInnes thriller, April 1, 2006

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Mike Garrison (Covington, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 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, October 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The 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 I became of MacInnes fan with this book, September 15, 2010

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Terri Sprague (Long Beach, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Snare of The Hunter (Paperback)

This was the first book of her's that I had read. I bought it through a book club in the 1970's. The book does not bog down and I really cared about the character's. I had no real concept of what politics's was like in eastern europe back then. This book gave me a real push to find out more.

I recommend this book highly. I just wish that it was in a Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, 6" Display, Graphite - Latest Generation edition so that I could take it with me all the time.