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It is set in Gilbert's usual locales of London and, to a lesser degree, the English countryside. By the end of the book, Luke has been asked to join the recently formed MO5 (later renamed [[MI5]]), a counter-intelligence agency, and Joe, in spite of losing part of a leg to a terrorist's bomb, has secured a good job as a security guard. | It is set in Gilbert's usual locales of London and, to a lesser degree, the English countryside. Luke and Joe are both country boys, one the son of a gamekeeper for a landed gentleman, the other the son of a poacher. Both are therefore expert at tracking and hunting for prey. Close friends in spite of their different natures By the end of the book, Luke has been asked to join the recently formed MO5 (later renamed [[MI5]]), a counter-intelligence agency, and Joe, in spite of losing part of a leg to a terrorist's bomb, has secured a good job as a security guard. | ||
==Appraisal== | ==Appraisal== | ||
Revision as of 19:28, 6 February 2017
Ring of Terror is a mystery novel by the British crime writer Michael Gilbert, first published in the United Kingdom in 1995 by Hodder and Stoughton and in the United States by Carroll & Graf. It was Gilbert's 28th novel and the first of three featuring his final set of recurring characters, Luke Pagan and Joe Narrabone.
Plot
It is set in Gilbert's usual locales of London and, to a lesser degree, the English countryside. Luke and Joe are both country boys, one the son of a gamekeeper for a landed gentleman, the other the son of a poacher. Both are therefore expert at tracking and hunting for prey. Close friends in spite of their different natures By the end of the book, Luke has been asked to join the recently formed MO5 (later renamed MI5), a counter-intelligence agency, and Joe, in spite of losing part of a leg to a terrorist's bomb, has secured a good job as a security guard.
Appraisal
An appraisal some years after its publication comes from Barzun and Taylor's encyclopedic Catalogue of Crime:
A superb, though harrowing, story of murder in a prisoner-of-war camp in northern Italy towards the end of the last world war. The skill with which suspense is kept up during a series of trivial incidents related to oppression and plans of escape is equaled only by the management of a large number of characters, Italian and English.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime,Harper & Row, New York, "Second Impression Corrected", 1973, page 208