The Night of Wenceslas

Informationen zum Autor Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull! Yorkshire. He left school early and worked as a reporter before serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. His first novel! The Night of Wenceslas ! was published in 1960 to great critical acclaim and drew comparisons to Graham Greene and John le Carré. It was followed by The Rose of Tibet (1962)! A Long Way to Shiloh (1966)! The Chelsea Murders (1978) and Kolymsky Heights (1994). He was thrice the recipient of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award and! in 2001! was awarded the CWA's Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award. He died in 2009. Zusammenfassung Young Nicholas Whistler, dissolute and disillusioned, lives a life of dull monotony in London. Caught up in a petty money-lenders dispute, he finds himself sent to Prague to discharge the debt by carrying out a simple assignment. But this business trip will soon drag him into the world of Cold War espionage and the battle for atomic supremacy.

Product details

• Authors: Lionel Davidson (Canada), Lionel Davidson, Davidson Lionel
• Assisted by: Lionel Davidson (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.2008
• EAN: 9780571242887
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24288-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature