The Twentieth Day of January by Ted Allbeury
A spookily prescient espionage thriller from one of the masters of the genre. What if the Soviet Union gained control over the US Presidency? SIS agent James Mackay fears that this may already be happening when he realises the newly elected president's press secretary is a former communist radical with links to the KGB. When the witnesses who support his suspicions are systematically eliminated, MacKay must race against time to prove that the President-Elect is not his own man before Inauguration Day and avoid a national catastrophe. 'When I say Ted Allbeury knows where the bodies are buried I mean it literally.' - Len Deighton, author of The Ipcress File.
His novel has seeming prescience, but what actually makes it worth reading are the rounded characters and ingenious plot that never breaks free of plausibilityThe very things in fact, that are missing from the saga of President Trump's victory. -- Jake Kerridge * Telegraph *
Ted Allbeury was a lieutenant-colonel in the Intelligence Corps during World War II, and later a successful executive in the fields of marketing, advertising and radio. He began his writing career in the early 1970s and became well known for his espionage novels, but also published one highly-praised general novel, THE CHOICE, and a short story collection, OTHER KINDS OF TREASON. His novels have been published in twenty-three languages, including Russian. He died on 4th December 2005.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781473679375 |
| ISBN 10 | 1473679370 |
| Title | The Twentieth Day of January |
| Author | Ted Allbeury |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2018-01-11 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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