- Gebundene Ausgabe: 336 Seiten
- Verlag: Putnam Adult (4. Mai 1994)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0399138633
- ISBN-13: 978-0399138638
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,1 x 14,5 x 2,5 cm
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In real life, American-born Aline, Countess of Romanones (The Spy Wore Silk, 1991, etc.) intended to retire from espionage following her marriage into the Spanish aristocracy after WW II. Aline has fictionalized this tale, which is based upon her experience, combining fabricated names and circumstances with actual characters, including herself. In 1977, this fictional Aline is reenlisted by John Derby, her CIA spymaster, to identify a Spanish shipping company that's transporting high-tech weaponry to Arab countries. Although an experienced spy, she is first a countess: At a lavish German wedding, it is impossible to rush to Derby to exchange information, because their places in protocol are not near each other. At a Malaga bullfight, she spots a merciless terrorist (Carlos the Jackal), is frightened, but then relaxes to enjoy the show. Her perspective on danger is puzzling: She describes a butler-led walk down an unlit hallway of a palace as an almost treacherous, suffocating experience but later calmly details her participation in a midnight rescue of a damsel in distress from a fortified estate, in which three rescuers scuba dive onto the beach, outwit the sophisticated security, and discover all of the smugglers, bringing the mystery to an explosive end. The hybrid of fact and fiction raises some confusion: At what point does Aline stray from the true story and embellish? Has she really been exposed to so much danger? Did the Duchess of Windsor really adore her? She drops names the way terrorists drop bombs, but her social duties do seem to land her in the midst of intrigue. The demarcation between truth and fantasy is unclear, but Aline's life is a fairy tale anyway, and she is as eager to show off her glamorous world as she is to create a credible thriller. (Literary Guild alternate selection) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
From Library Journal
In this first novel, the author of three volumes of memoirs based on her experiences as an intelligence agent during and after World War II offers a fictionalized account of the illegal traffic in nuclear weapons materiel. The story features the exploits of Carlos the Jackal-one of the most deadly international terrorist-assassins-whom the author personally became involved with in the late 1970s. Moving from Marbella to the Arabian Peninsula to Toledo and on to St. Moritz, the story is peopled with fictionalized scions of industry as well as famous movers on the international jet-set scene such as Ava Gardner. There is much name-and place-dropping and overlong descriptions of meals, rooms, and clothes, but the reader's interest is held by the dry, detailed accounting of events surrounding this episode in the further adventures of Carlos the Jackal. Recommended for general fiction collections, particularly where the author's earlier works are popular.
--Erna Chamberlain, SUNY at Binghamton
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--Erna Chamberlain, SUNY at Binghamton
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Started out as fact...but fiction wove in
18. Februar 1999
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
In the beginning in the book, Countess confesses as having started this as a non-fictional account involving Carlos the Jackal. But when she heard that he might still be alive...she had to weave in fiction to protect herself and others. This was a wonderful story, and it is amazing, how a well-mannered young man, is a assasin. This was a fast paced book, nothing was boring.
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The Well-Mannered Assassin
10. Januar 2003
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The Well-Mannered Assassin was a suspenseful book with lots of thills and great detail. Aline Romanones, an American Beauty, goes back to her days at the OSS as a spy. She decides to help out her old spymaster John Derby when she finds out she's been befriended by an international terrorist; Carlos the Jackal. It's a deadly game of cat-and-mouse that will keep you coming back for more.
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The Well-Mannered Assassin By Aline Countess of Romanones
16. September 2005
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I loved this book. I had just re-read The Spy Wore Red, The Spy Went Dancing, The Spy Wore Silk from the same Author, and had decided I wanted to buy them. When I entered them I found this one that I had previously known nothing about. I was very excited to find it.
This womans' Spy work is so interesting. The locations these stories cover and the opulant living are great. This Book took the stories further and was a delight.
I love a quick moving book that grabs your imagination right away.
This womans' Spy work is so interesting. The locations these stories cover and the opulant living are great. This Book took the stories further and was a delight.
I love a quick moving book that grabs your imagination right away.
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