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4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable Wheatley "Duc de Richelieu" adventure,
By Hulagu Khan (Northern Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Golden Spaniard (Mass Market Paperback)
"The Golden Spaniard" is an enjoyable period adventure set during the Spanish Civil War written by Dennis Wheatley (who wrote it in the 30s). It features those "modern musketeers": the exiled Anglo-French nobleman/adventurer the Duc de Richelieu, his American friend, the pugnacious Rex Van Ryn and their English colleagues, Richard Eaton and Simon Aron who wind up on opposite sides in the civil war between Franco and the Socialist Spanish Government. Not as good as Wheatley's best book - the occult adventure "The Devil Rides Out" - but still fun and full of intrigue and daring escapades, even though it is jingoistic, simplistic and very politically incorrect as all of Wheatley's work is. Like much of the English upper class, Wheatley's sympathy is with the right but not blindly so (see that scene in the Finnish Embassy with the exiled aristocrats).
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The golden Spaniard by Dennis Wheatley (Unknown Binding - 1967)
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