Book description
What would the world think if a handsome naval hero who had access to
his government’s secrets suddenly disappeared in mysterious
circumstances - especially if some of his files appeared to be missing
and a cryptic farewell wire was found?
Commander Colin Easton meets an old comrade and is introduced to his
friend’s wife, Isobel. The two soon start an affair and hatch a
money-making plot. He takes himself off to Megstone, one of the Farne
islands off the coast of Northumberland, so that he is branded a traitor
by the Press, in the hope that he can sue for libel. Being ‘marooned’ on
this small deserted island with his ‘rescue’ assured is not so bad . . .
but he didn’t count on another girl getting enmeshed in the plot, and
Colin soon finds that two women is too many. Andrew Garve is the pen
name of Paul Winterton (1908-2001). He was born in Leicester and
educated at the Hulme Grammar School, Manchester and Purley County
School, Surrey, after which he took a degree in Economics at London
University. He was on the staff of The Economist
for four years, and then worked for fourteen years for the London
News Chronicle
as reporter, leader writer and foreign correspondent. He was assigned
to Moscow from 1942 to 1945, where he was also the correspondent of the
BBC’s Overseas Service.
After the war he turned to full-time writing of detective and adventure
novels and produced more than forty-five books. His work was serialized,
televised, broadcast, filmed and translated into some twenty languages.
He is noted for his varied and unusual backgrounds - which have included
Russia, newspaper offices, the West Indies, ocean sailing, the
Australian outback, politics, mountaineering and forestry - and for
never repeating a plot.
Andrew Garve was a founder member and first joint secretary of the
Crime Writers’ Association.
