Watcher in the Shadows [Hardcover]

Geoffrey Household (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1960

248 page hard cover novel by Geoffrey Household. It is the story of a manhunt, of a protracted duel fought out in London in the countryside of Sussex by two of the most accomplished and deadly intelligence officers to have survived the Second World War.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 248 pages
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T); First Edition edition (June 1960)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316374288
• ISBN-13: 978-0316374286
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,188,979 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely amazing!, April 27, 2000

By 

Steve Buckwalter (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Watcher in the Shadows (Hardcover)

This is an amazing work of fiction that is impossible to put down before it is finished. If you have ever visited England in the summer you will appreciate Household's love of the countryside and the intense beauty of it. Household weaves together a story about a man who is forced to confront his past by an unknown stalker, and a beautiful woman who is struggling to find what she wants out of life. Nature, human and otherwise, figure strongly in this amazing story that defies catagorization.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A little jewel of a thriller, April 20, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Watcher in the Shadows (Transaction Large Print Books) (Hardcover)

A pity most of Household's books seem to be out of print. The best of them are elegant, thoughtful, and suspenseful, written with an economy that many of today's purveyors of bloated "epics" might well envy. Watcher is probably my favorite of them: concise, immaculately paced, and imbued with a precise and loving sense of place.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Duel, July 13, 2009

By 

Brian Brandt (Lansdale, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Watcher in the Shadows (Hardcover)

Ten years after the War, Charles Dennim lives quietly as a zoologist in rural England. On a quiet morning in May, his trip to the front door to gather the mail is interrupted by a bomb blast. Thus begins the most finely crafted chase novel in my reading experience.

Mr. Dennim's unknown antagonist blames him for the death, in a German concentration camp, of his wife. What the bomber does not know is that Dennim - a Gestapo captain - worked secretly for the Allies to free specific prisoners.

Household's writing in this book reveals his affection for the English countryside in the early '50s, and portrays a protagonist with as fine a sense of moral conduct as any I have ever read.