Trailing a notorious anarchist in Ireland, artillery Captain Matthew Ranklin teams up with scruffy but streetwise Conall O'Gilroy and encounters a web of espionage involving agents of the Kaiser, Archduke Ferdinand, and the death of a British agent.
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Ireland, France, Germany and Hungary comprise the vividly rendered principal locales in this episodic, adventure-filled yarn about the early days of the British Secret Service. In 1912, a nearly bankrupt British officer, Matthew Ranklin, is reduced to being a mercenary in the Greek army and subsequently dragooned into the employ of a Bureau whose existence no one will acknowledge. Dispatched to capture an Irish anarchist, he joins forces with the spirited Conall O'Gilroy, when O'Gilroy decides to switch sides from the Irish nationalists to the British Empire after inadvertently killing a mate. In Paris the pair becomes a trio, as "American enchantress" Corinna Finn steps in when they run afoul of a French Royalist. Subsequent triumphs occur at an annual regatta in Kiel, Germany, and in Hungary, where they foil a plot involving the Archduke Ferdinand (thinking they have staved off the threat of world war). An assumed identity by Ranklin adds delightful complications, while lively dialogue and plotting in the best espionage tradition keep events moving briskly. Evocative period details increase the book's charm, as does Lyall's subtle underscoring of the question implicit in his title-in the world of a spy, exactly what is honor?
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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comedy and thriller,
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I read Spy's Honour and I think it's definitely one of the coolest books I've ever read. The characters are just great - Conall O'Gilroy is someone you have to like anyway, but Gavin Lyall also manages to make the reader like Cpt. Ranklin very much. The book has a great story - that is to say, it has about four great stories that go together nicely. Besides, it features a lot of historic information.
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An enjoyable and somewhat unconventional espionage thriller by the veteran writer Gavin Lyall. Set in the years prior to WWI, Spy's Honour is a set of interconnected stories about the nascent British Secret Service. Not the best of Lyall's books, this is still an entertaining book with solid characterization, decent plotting, and a series of slightly exotic settings.
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