Quiller The Striker Portfolio eBook Adam Hall
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London's secretive Bureau sends Quiller to investigate a suspicious rash of crashes of Strikers, West Germany's new supersonic jets. Quiller's hunt for the villains makes him a target for murder and ultimately a prisoner in East Germany's terrifying "asylum". All Quiller's brilliance, impulsiveness and courage are called on for him to survive and uncover the truth behind these murders. Moving with breakneck speed, THE STRIKER PORTFOLIO was called by the Buffalo Evening News "fast and savage" and "cinematically hypnotic" by The New Yorker.
"For fans and students of the genre, it's a must … pure adrenaline!"
- The Chicago Times
"When it comes to espionage fiction, Adam Hall has no peer."
- Eric Van Lustbader, author of "THE BOURNE DOMINIUM"
"Hall has been turning out Quiller novels, each one a winner, for years. Over the years, the character has grown in eccentricity, depth and appeal."
- The Chicago Tribune
"Riveting and taut … you won't be disappointed!"
- The Denver Post
"Quiller is one of suspense literature's great secret agents!"
- The Houston Chronicle
"Thrilling."
- The Los Angeles Times
"They don't get any tougher or more intelligent than the Quiller tales."
- The Rocky Mountain News
"Quiller is by now a primary reflex."
- Kirkus Reviews
"Tense, intelligent, harsh, surprising..."
- The New York Times
(Quiller is) "the greatest survival expert among contemporary secret agents."
- The New York Times
"Stunningly well done, tense, elliptical, without a misplaced word."
- The New York Republic
"Espionage at its best!"
- The London Times
"Breathless entertainment!"
- The Associated Press
"White-hot intensity."
- The Washington Post
Praise for ADAM HALL
"Tension in a novel is difficult to maintain at a pitch that actually creates a physical impact on the reader. A few of the best writers can do it, and among them is Adam Hall."
- London Times Literary Supplement
"Nobody writes espionage better than Adam Hall!"
- The New York Times
"[Adam Hall] is the unchallenged king of the spy story."
- Buffalo News
"Adam Hall is an exemplary writer and one of the few in this genre to do his job with a poet's skill and fierce pride in the language."
- The Hong Kong Times
"Adam Hall writes the most exciting, original and authentic espionage novels to be found on bookshelves today."
- The Banner
"Few writers handle action as excitingly as Hall..."
- The Houston Chronicle
Quiller The Striker Portfolio eBook Adam Hall
Brits will know what I mean by this. You'll either like these books or you'll absolutely hate them.Even if you like them (and I do) the author has got a couple of irritating traits. The first is an obsession with trivial details. For example, the protagonist, Quiller, spends an entire chapter explaining that his NSU (with a rotary engine) can't outrun a Mercedes but, can out accelerate it which helps him run it off the road. The second is, for want of a better phrase, the random shag. A female character appears in the book for about three chapters, rarely makes a blind bit of difference to the progress of the plot but, Quiller goes to bed with them - they're sort of like those who aren't the main girl in any given James Bond film.
Now let's get on to the two main irritants. Firstly (and I know as I've read all of them), the author never, ever really finishes off the story. Quiller crosses the border/kills the bad guy/crawls into the oasis/cracks the code (delete where appropriate) and that's it, job done, end of book. If you like an epilogue, you're out of luck.
The second, and most irritating, is what I call the instantaneous flashback. Let me give you an example. In, say, chapter nine, Quiller will be fighting two other guys in a train carriage and at the end of the chapter, he and one or both of his assailants will fall through the window. Rather than describe what happens next, chapter ten will almost invariably begin with Quiller talking to his field director/ having sex with the 'Quiller girl'/ doing the Times crossword and the story will progress for three of four pages before he jumps back and lets you know that he landed on one of his attackers who broke his fall and everything's hunky dory. Now, if this was an occasional plot device, well, what the heck? However, it isn't - the author does this about every four chapters and it all gets a bit tiresome.
So that's the bad stuff.
The upside is that the books themselves are good. Quiller is an interesting character, the story moves along at a fair old clip and you can't beat a bit of the old Cold War era spycraft stuff.
It's either John Le Carre with fist fights or Ian Fleming without alcohol and tobacco.
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Quiller The Striker Portfolio eBook Adam Hall Reviews
First book in series was the best.
Always fun
Great story, exciting plot, nail biting action. Quiller does it again, and, yes, gets a bit beaten up in the process. That's what makes the book so great!!!
I first read this c. 1970. It's fun, in a paranoid, cold-war, spy sort of way. It's not about devices. It's about people, and, for the most part, they're believable. Not great, but good enough for a diverting read.
Great character insight and development, as you come to expect of our author. Dated period, but bring out memories which we should not forget concerning the cold (and sometimes not-so-cold) war.
A classic Quiller book, with our eponymous hero putting himself in impossibly dangerous positions. Typical of Adam Hall the tension is kept wound tight throughout. And Quiller remains one of the most compelling and complex characters in the genre. Great read.
Unsurpassed writing quality. Lightning prose. Powerful voices. Lines you want quote. Immensely real, terrifying and satisfying. An objective outside the norm in spy fiction.
Brits will know what I mean by this. You'll either like these books or you'll absolutely hate them.
Even if you like them (and I do) the author has got a couple of irritating traits. The first is an obsession with trivial details. For example, the protagonist, Quiller, spends an entire chapter explaining that his NSU (with a rotary engine) can't outrun a Mercedes but, can out accelerate it which helps him run it off the road. The second is, for want of a better phrase, the random shag. A female character appears in the book for about three chapters, rarely makes a blind bit of difference to the progress of the plot but, Quiller goes to bed with them - they're sort of like those who aren't the main girl in any given James Bond film.
Now let's get on to the two main irritants. Firstly (and I know as I've read all of them), the author never, ever really finishes off the story. Quiller crosses the border/kills the bad guy/crawls into the oasis/cracks the code (delete where appropriate) and that's it, job done, end of book. If you like an epilogue, you're out of luck.
The second, and most irritating, is what I call the instantaneous flashback. Let me give you an example. In, say, chapter nine, Quiller will be fighting two other guys in a train carriage and at the end of the chapter, he and one or both of his assailants will fall through the window. Rather than describe what happens next, chapter ten will almost invariably begin with Quiller talking to his field director/ having sex with the 'Quiller girl'/ doing the Times crossword and the story will progress for three of four pages before he jumps back and lets you know that he landed on one of his attackers who broke his fall and everything's hunky dory. Now, if this was an occasional plot device, well, what the heck? However, it isn't - the author does this about every four chapters and it all gets a bit tiresome.
So that's the bad stuff.
The upside is that the books themselves are good. Quiller is an interesting character, the story moves along at a fair old clip and you can't beat a bit of the old Cold War era spycraft stuff.
It's either John Le Carre with fist fights or Ian Fleming without alcohol and tobacco.
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