The Flowers of the Forest

About the author

Joseph Hone, born 1937, is a novelist, journalist and broadcaster. Faber Finds publishes his four Peter Marlow spy thrillers - The Private Sector, The Sixth Directorate, The Valley of the Fox and The Flowers of the Forest, plus the stand-alone thriller The Paris Trap and the autobiographical Children of the Country.
Finds' editions of the four Marlow thrillers as well as The Paris Trap each feature a new preface about Hone and his work by the contemporary spy novelist and non-fiction author Jeremy Duns.
As a writer of spy thrillers, Joseph Hone has been compared favourably with the likes of Eric Ambler, Len Deighton and John le Carre. His most recent book, Wicked Little Joe, is a memoir published by Lilliput Press.

Summary

The Flowers of the Forest(1980) was the second of Joseph Hone's quartet of 'Peter Marlow' spy novels, all now reissued as Faber Finds. It is an idyllic setting: the sunlit forest sweeping down to the valley, the heather loud with bees.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Hone
• Assisted by: Jeremy Duns (Introduction)
• Publisher: Faber And Faber Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 433 g
• Series: A Peter Marlow spy thriller
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature