Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer

Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer

Sleuth is a 1970 play whose Broadway production received the Tony Award for Best Play, and Anthony Quayle and Keith Baxter received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance. The play was adapted for feature films in 1972, 2007 and 2014.

Sleuth has all the ingredients of a top-class thriller, which it undoubtedly is - a plot whose twists and turns are breathtakingly audacious and fiendishly cunning; suspense and excitement galore; and a brilliant parody of the Agatha Christie country-house thriller, mercilessly satirizing the genre at the same as using its technical devices to the full. It is a dramatic study of sexual conflict and jealousy between an older and a younger man; as well as a subtle psychological portrait of an inadequate and sexually-obsessed middle-aged man.

The 1972 film version was directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine in the leading roles, and this edition is fully illustrated with stills from the film.

Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Operations on the Frontlines of Afghanistan--and the Road to Victory is written by Lt.Col. Anthony Shaffer. He is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army and a Bronze Star Medal recipient. Army Reserve of the United States of America. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in the intelligence community and is a CIA-trained senior intelligence operations officer. In Washington, D.C., he is a Senior Fellow and Special Lecturer at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies.