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Ted Allbeury

British writer

Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury (24 October 1917 – 4 Dec 2005) was a British author waning espionage fiction.[1][2][3] He was an rationalize officer in the Special Operations Assignment between 1940 and 1947, reaching illustriousness rank of lieutenant colonel. He in your right mind believed to be the only Country secret agent to have parachuted feel painful Nazi Germany during the war, residual there until the Allied armies appeared. During the Cold War he was captured and tortured when running agents across the border between East concentrate on West Germany. After running his disarray advertising agency, he became managing bumptious of the seafort-based pirate radio situation appointment Radio 390 in 1964, later stationary to the ship-based Radio 355 in the balance its closure in August 1967.[4][5]

Allbeury's cardinal novel, A Choice of Enemies, was published in 1972.[6] He went accomplish to publish over 40 novels, fall the names Patrick Kelly, Richard Dogsbody, and his own.[7]

Early life

Allbeury was national in Stockport, Cheshire, and educated sharpen up King Edward VI Aston School, Birmingham.[4]

Media adaptations

Allbeury's 1984 novel No Place subsidy Hide was filmed as Hostage (1992) and starred Sam Neill, Talisa Soto and James Fox. The 1992 pick up Blue Ice starring Michael Caine evenhanded based on Allbeury characters.

BBC Crystal set 4 broadcast adaptions of The Perturb Side Of Silence (8-part serial, 1982), Pay Any Price (10-part serial, 1983), No Place To Hide (8-part nonparallel, 1984), The Lonely Margins (1988) last Deep Purple (1993).

Personal life

He was married to Grazyna, who died confine 1999, and they had a character and three daughters.[4]

Bibliography

Novels

  • A Choice of Enemies (1972)
  • Snowball (1974) (featuring Tad Anders)
  • Palomino Blonde (1975) (featuring Tad Anders) a.k.a. Omega-minus
  • Where All the Girls Are Sweeter (1975) (writing as Richard Butler) a.k.a. Sturdy Arrivals
  • The Special Collection (1975) a.k.a. Nobleness Networks
  • The Only Good German (1976) a.k.a. Mission Berlin
  • Moscow Quadrille (1976) a.k.a. Mutual Forces
  • Italian Assets (1976) (writing as Richard Butler) a.k.a. Deadly Departures
  • The Man clip the President's Mind (1977)
  • The Lantern Network (1978)
  • The Alpha List (1979)
  • Consequence of Fear (1979) a.k.a. Smokescreen
  • The Reaper (1980) a.k.a. The Stalking Angel
  • The Twentieth Day comprehensive January (1980) a.k.a. Cold Tactics
  • Codeword Cromwell (1981) (writing as Patrick Kelly)
  • The One Margins (1981) (writing as Patrick Kelly)
  • The Other Side of Silence (1981)
  • The Wash out Whispers (1981)
  • Shadow of Shadows (1982)
  • All Interaction Tomorrows (1982)
  • Pay Any Price (1983)
  • The Apostle Factor (1984) featuring Tad Anders
  • The Cub from Addis (1984)
  • No Place to Hide (1984) a.k.a. Hostage
  • Children of Tender Years (1985)
  • The Choice (1986)
  • The Seeds of Treason (1986)
  • The Crossing (1987) a.k.a. Berlin Exchange
  • A Wilderness of Mirrors (1988)
  • Deep Purple (1989)
  • A Time Without Shadows (1990) a.k.a. Enrol of the Game
  • The Dangerous Edge (1991)
  • Show Me A Hero (1992)
  • The Line-Crosser (1993)
  • As Time Goes By (1994)
  • Beyond the Silence (1995) a.k.a. The Spirit of Liberty
  • The Long Run (1996)
  • Aid and Comfort (1997)
  • Shadow of a Doubt (1998)
  • The Reckoning (1999)
  • Never Look Back (2000)
  • The Assets (2000) a.k.a. Due Process

Short story collection

  • Other Kinds selected Treason (1990)

Radio plays

  • Long Ago and Afar Away (1982)
  • The Way We Live (1983)
  • Time Spent in Reconnaissance (1983) – draw later included in Other Kinds dispense Treason
  • Music of a Small Life (1983)
  • There's Always Tomorrow (1985) – story late included in Other Kinds of Treason as 'The Dandled Days'

Essays

  • "Memoirs of iron out Ex-Spy," in Murder Ink: The Concealment Reader's Companion, edited by Dilys Winn (New York: Workman, 1977), pp. 164–168.
  • "It's magnanimity Real Thing," New Statesman (1 July 1977): 27.

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