Horizon

Author Helen MacInnes
Narrator Steven Crossley
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Run Time 6 hours and 16 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Espionage and spy thriller, Historical crime and mysteries, Thriller / suspense fiction.

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What to expect

British soldier Peter Lennox, a POW in an Italian prison camp, is still fighting his own war. An artist in civilian life, his hands bear the scars of wounds received during his capture at the fall of Tobruk, and he suspects he will never paint again. The only thing that sustains him is plotting his escapes, no matter how many times he is recaptured. But in September 1943 the Italians surrender to the Allies, and Lennox is free. Wanting nothing more than to return to the fighting, he is instead assigned to the mountains of the South Tyrol as a liaison to a desperate band of resistance fighters.

With little more than courage and knowledge of the local terrain, Lennox and his comrades must help pave the way for an Allied push that may change the course of the war.

Critics Review

“The hallmarks of a MacInnes novel of suspense are as individual and as clearly stamped as a Hitchcock thriller.”

New York Times, praise for the author

“Helen MacInnes can hang her cloak and dagger right up there with Eric Ambler and Graham Greene”

Newsweek, praise for the author

“More class than most adventure writers accumulate in a lifetime.”

Chicago Daily News, praise for the author

“Helen MacInnes is totally original. No one writing today creates more realistic, more credible characters than she does.”

Alistair MacLean, author of The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare, praise for the author

“The queen of spy writers.”

Sunday Express (London), praise for the author

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