Lionel Davidson

The Night of Wenceslas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The award-winning debut thriller from the bestselling author of Kolymsky Heights'Quite simply the best thriller writer around.' SpectatorNicolas Whistler is young, bored and in debt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber / Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 201g
• ISBN-13: 9780571326846
• ISBN-10: 0571326846
• Artikelnr.: 43916388

Autorenporträt

Davidson, Lionel§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.

Rezensionen

Quite simply the best thriller writer around. Spectator