Dans le numéro spécial de Lire (plus de 800 pages) qu'il a consacré à San-Antonio et qui s'intitule : SAN-ANTONIO, son vit, son œuvre, Bernard Pivot a écrit dans sa brillante introduction que San-Antonio était le plus grand écrivain de langue française après Shakespeare.
Le célèbre journaliste, monarque incontesté de la littérature actuelle, vient de nous adresser un rectificatif pour nous dire sa crainte de voir cet « après » mal interprété et créer une notion de subalternité dont San-Antonio aurait à souffrir par rapport à Shakespeare ; il préférerait substituer à son « après » la préposition « depuis », qu'il juge moins équivoque.
Nous le remercions pour sa grande probité morale et espérons que le présent ouvrage renforcera encore son admiration pour l'immense écrivain.
Les éditeurs.
A phone rings in a London flat. A little later an Admiralty physicist disappears from Gibraltar, and a body is found washed up against its shores…
Deep below Gibraltar’s Rock, a secret, auto-powered nuclear fuel-production unit throbs and hums as its builds up a store of AGL SIX, a dangerous new motivating-agent for the British atomic submarines to be based there.
This fuel unit has developed a fault. Allowed to overrun beyond a certain point, it will produce the biggest atomic blast since Hiroshima.
Only Ackroyd, the persecution-complexed inventor of the unit, can stop it. And Ackroyd has disappeared.
Commander Esmonde Shaw, R.N, of the Naval Intelligence Division wants to get out and settle down with a house in the suburbs.
Unfortunately for Naval Intelligence’s finest secret agent, these peaceful plans will have to wait.
Shaw establishes that the physicist has fallen into the hands of foreign agents operating from Spanish territory.
Shaw's job is to get Ackroyd back to Gibraltar before the Rock blows up — and before Ackroyd is smuggled out of Spain.
As Shaw wanders rounds the Spanish streets, he catches the heavy odour of a well-remembered perfume. Karina Czercov, the most dangerous, beautiful woman behind the Iron Curtain, is caught up in this intrigue.
Something in the air tells them that this encounter was going to be a fight to the finish.
Gibraltar Road is a high-octane thriller filled with espionage and intrigue.
Auric Goldfinger: okrutny, inteligentny, frustrująco ostrożny. Oszust w kanaście i krętacz na dużą skalę w życiu codziennym. Takich ludzi James Bond nienawidzi najbardziej. Dobrze się więc składa, że to właśnie Bond otrzymał zbadanie tego co Goldfinger, najbogatszy człowiek w kraju, zamierza zrobić ze swoimi nieuczciwymi zyskami, oraz co łączy go ze Smiersz – ultratajną sowiecką organizacją bezlitośnie likwidujących obcych agentów. 007 odkrywa, że Goldfinger ma niezwykle ambitne i groźne plany: wśród nich są największa kradzież złota w historii oraz masowe morderstwo…
At the height of the Cold War, a British intelligence agent investigates a Russian defector with a deadly secret
Adrian Dodds is a man without hobbies, friends, or family, who works a very peculiar job. Though he looks like a pencil pusher, he is a British counter-intelligence agent. In his own quiet, bureaucratic way, Dodds is vital to the security of the United Kingdom. His latest assignment is debriefing Viktor Pavel, a Soviet aeronautics genius who escapes his handlers to become the Cold War's most high-profile defector. Can he be trusted, or was he sent over as part of an elaborate Russian ruse? The truth is more complex than Dodds can imagine.
Based on years of experience covering foreign affairs for English newspapers, this is one of the first novels by Brian Freemantle, one of the finest espionage authors of the Cold War.
First published 1973.