Geoffrey Household
1) Rogue male
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a professional hunter passes through a Central European country, he decides to sneak into the dictator's private compound and finds himself thrown in prison, enduring a harrowing escape, and fleeing through enemy territory to find safety in his native England.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
A scientist working alone in the Amazon is drawn by local superstition into a terrifying nightmare of brutality and death Deep in the heart of darkness, Dr. Owen Dawnay has stumbled across an unimaginable horror. A dedicated agricultural scientist, he has set up a lonely outpost on the outskirts of Colombia's Amazon to study the flora that thrives in one of the most remote and inhospitable regions on the face of the Earth. It is the odd behavior of...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
"Piers Colet, a British economic historian, investigates a cult of druidical devotees and their leader, the charismatic Simeon Marrin, with the help of Marrin's beautiful niece Elsa and the eccentric Major Matravers-Drummond"--www.amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1955]
Language
English
Description
"Claudio Howerd-Wolferstan is neither a communist nor a spy. Yet he breaks into a top-security government hostel to retrieve the family treasure. With a spot secured on the wanted lists of both the British police and Russian communist leaders, he is forced to run from a charge of high treason. A master of disguise, he bluffs his way out of many a dangerous situation and outwits his pursuers. But how long can his luck last? The speed of Claudio's transformations...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Tales of Europe, before and after the war, when lives could change in an instant Fleeing the Cuban revolution, a businessman's return to England is blocked by the secret police of General Franco. In Hungary, a peasant treasures a barrel of wine as a symbol of the world she lost during the war. At a Romanian ball, in the frenzied years that followed the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a British traveler finds himself challenged to a duel....
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
After years on the run, an assassin seeks vengeance against the Nazis It's been four years since Raymond Ingelram failed to kill Hitler. All it took was a slight change in wind to force his bullet wide and put the entire German secret service on his tail. Ingelram ran to England, where he went to ground in the wilds of Dorset and finally escaped his pursuers. Safe at last, he does the only thing that makes sense: He decides to go back to Germany....
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Far in the future, a group of dissidents fight to rebuild Britain It has been seven hundred years since the United Kingdom was destroyed. In the aftermath of a global cataclysm, the peoples of Europe banded together under a single flag, but the English refused to go along. Their resistance was rewarded with a genocide that wiped out half the population. The survivors resettled in North Africa, and Britain was declared uninhabitable. To celebrate the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1958]
Language
English
Description
Stories of intrigue and adventure at the edge of civilization It has been nine years since Solomon Carver went up the Amazon. He left an anthropologist, but he has remade himself as a god. Rumors float down the river that Carver has taken two hundred wives and left the morality of Christendom behind. In the depths of the jungle, he has discovered a dying tribe, and has set about reviving it in a most unusual fashion. When a colonial administrator...
11) The third hour
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
1938.
Language
English
Description
"The Third Hour is a novel of movement: the story sweeps over Europe and the Americas and its characters are drawn from all classes. It opens with the adventures of a young Spaniard, Manuel Vargas. In the midst of the guerrilla fighting in Mexico, Manuel has access to a shipment of bullion earmarked for the United States. It is beyond his power to get it out of the country, but he can bury it, and this he does in the hope of some day being able to...
Author
Series
Armed Services editions ; 1165
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Description
Twelve evocative and unforgettable tales of adventure, self-discovery, and flawed humanity by one of the twentieth century's most able storytellers The literary career of the remarkable Geoffrey Household spanned more than half a century, from the 1930s to the late 1980s, and it began with the publication of his first short story, "The Salvation of Pisco Gabar," in the Atlantic Monthly in 1936. A powerful, moving tale of a fateful bargain struck between...
Publisher
[Treasure Box Collection?]
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
Rogue male: Captain Robert Thorndyke tries to assassinate Hitler and is chased across Europe by the Gestapo. Cape Town affair: Secret information and Communist espionage come into play after a purse is stolen on a South African bus.