Philip Wylie

The Spy Who Spoke Porpoise (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A circus performer turned superspy is caught up in a Cold War web of conspiracy and death when the body of a murdered CIA agent is discovered in a Hawaiian marine park By any definition, Ringling Wallenda Grove is an extraordinary man. The son of expatriate Russian former circus owners, he mastered the arts of acrobatics, animal training, and magic at a young age, distinguished himself as an officer in World War II, and went on to amass a fortune of several million dollars before going into semiretirement. But there is another side to this man that few know about. R. W. Grove is a master spy, having honed his trade as a postwar intelligence agent with the OSS. Now the murder of a Company agent, whose body was found floating among the aquatic animals in Honolulu's popular Sea Life Park, is pulling Grove back into the game. A deadly international conspiracy is afoot, involving the nation's most bitter and dangerous enemies, and it centers on a covert CIA operation code-named Zed-an undertaking so secretive that even the president can know nothing about it. Renowned for his provocative, stunningly realized speculative fiction, Philip Wylie joined the ranks of John le Carré, Len Deighton, Robert Ludlum, and other masters of the espionage thriller when he first published The Spy Who Spoke Porpoise. Brimming with action, intrigue, and ingenious twists and turns, the novel brilliantly captures the fears, anxieties, paranoia, and rampant conspiracies that hallmarked the Cold War era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 307
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781453202296
• Artikelnr.: 44325543

Autorenporträt

Philip Wylie (1902-1971) was a prolific writer whose work spanned a range of genres from men's adventure and detective stories to science fiction and social criticism. Several of his novels, including When Worlds Collide, Night Unto Night, and Los Angeles: A.D. 2017, as well asthe Crunch & Des stories, were adapted as movies and television shows, and his novel Gladiatoris considered one of the inspirations for the iconic character Superman. Wylie was also a commentator on American society. In 1942 he published Generation of Vipers,a bestselling book of essays that attacked the complacencies of the American way of life.His novel The Disappearancepresents a dystopia in which men and women vanish from the perception of the opposite sex, allowing Wylie to explore the issues of women's rights and homosexuality. Wylie recognized early the potentially catastrophic effects of pollution and climate change and wrote both fiction and nonfiction on those topics.