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 Quiller: The 9th Directive - Adam Hall
 Quiller: The 9th Directive - Adam Hall ... PublishingNewest Review: ... work I believe ~ only The Quiller Memorandum has ever been filmed and that back in the seventies), and if ever a time was ... more ... ripe for these novels to become a successful movie series then that time is now. Meanwhile, this series remains something of an enigma; popular amongst it's fans but little known to anybody else thus garnering the books something of a cult reputation not helped by the fact that many of the novels are now out of print and sometimes difficult to track down.
In this paticular mission, Quiller is sent to Thailand to plot the assassination of a visiting politically important British Person, who remains throughout the book un...more |
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Quiller: The 9th Directive - Adam Hall: A real Quiller of a secret agent thriller.... (705 words)
by - written on 18/09/09 (Very useful, 34 readings)
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The second Quiller novel written by Elleston Trever under the pseudonym of Adam Hall, The 9th Directive is a cold-war espionage drama very much in the back-to-basics style of The Bourne movie series or the new re-imagined Bond films starring Daniel Craig. Quiller eschews a gun on most of his missions, preferring to rely on his knowledge of unarmed combat to survive, and there are no gadgets or handy secret agent devices to hand; all Quiller has is his guile and his ability to blend into the crowd, perform his mission objective and withdraw before anyone even knows he was there. Often things have a habit of going the way of the pear through no fault of Quiller's own, but ... Read the complete review
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