By the author of Rogue Male, one of the classic thrillers of the twentieth century: a bestseller that redefined its genre Guardian
Geoffrey Household returns to the rural England of Rogue Male and Watcher in the Shadows, with the savage hunting of his two heroes from the estuaries of South Devon to the empty Marlborough Downs.
The novel reveals at last the fate of Alwyn Rory, the security officer who was believed to have taken a bribe to allow a naval spy to escape and to have defected to Russia rather than face trial. Both Rory and his new ally, Adrian Gurney, by whom the story is told, are on the run and may be killed with impunity, as they do not exist ...
- ISBN10 0140045228
- ISBN13 9780140045222
- Publish Date 23 February 1978
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Group
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English