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One agent dead plus a Russian contact out in the cold equals a mess for Quiller. His mission: locate the contact before he (the contact) gets blown away. 
But no one anticipates an extremist coup. Suddenly the contact's in jeopardy and Quiller's caught in a murderous cross fire. 
"Great adventure, brilliantly plotted and told." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board) 
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Hero of 16 earlier adventures ( Quiller Solitaire , et al.), the eponymous British agent can still be depended on for quick thinking and unflinching derring-do. Here, his mettle is put to the test in the former Soviet Union when he is called in to salvage Operation Meridian. Quiller travels from Rome to Bucharest to Moscow trailing a skittish Russian contact, who then books himself on the Rossiya (the Trans-Siberian Express), bound for Vladivostok. Quiller entrains too, and the book plunges into almost nonstop action. During the course of the narrative, Quiller is shot at, survives a car crash and a train wreck, and battles the Russian militia, the violent Stalinist Podpolia underground and a rogue ex-KGB agent who is fond of bombs. The final confrontation takes place in Novosibirsk with leaders of the Podpolia , who are plotting a coup with the Chinese and the rogue bomber. As ever, narrator Quiller's voice is knowing and insouciant, deftly turning plot points with razor-sharp characterizations and keeping readers on the edges of their seats. The subtleties of the spy trade--and the inadequacies of British intelligence--are nicely limned, as is life in the new Russia. Adam Hall is the pseudonym of Elleston Trevor ( Deathwatch ). 
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. 
 From Library Journal 
When Quiller, British secret agent extraordinaire, is called upon to take over a botched mission code-named Meridian, he finds himself on a train to Siberia. His assignment: to track Zymyanin, a Russian informant who has startling information for the West. Quiller soon discovers the existence of a plot by the Podpolia, hard-line Communists unwilling to yield power, which involves the Russian army. Before he is able to pursue this lead, Zymyanin is killed and Quiller is framed for his murder. Not only must he run from the police, but he must uncover the plot without alarming the conspirators. Hall ( Quiller Solitaire , Morrow, 1992) also introduces a subplot, adding even more twists to a story already full of action but light on characterization. At times, Quiller talks to himself, at other times to the reader, but in any case the terse prose provides a minimum of information. Recommended only for those who prefer action to anything else.\n- Roberta Pessah, St. John's Univ., New York 
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. 
 From Kirkus Reviews 
A blown rendezvous and a dead British agent in Bucharest send truculent veteran Quiller (Quiller Solitaire, etc.) to Moscow to contact Vladimir Zymyanin, the Russian agent who'd set up the meeting, and to find out the secret that was so vital and so dangerous. Zymyanin agrees to a meeting on the Trans-Siberian Express, but before he can do more than mutter imprecations about a troika of ex- generals aboard the train, he's shot, and Quiller is detained for his murder as the generals helicopter off into the sunset. A suspicious explosion in the generals' former car, however, allows Quiller to escape to the frigid town of Novosibirsk and resume his search for them by shadowing Tanya Rusakova, a clerk who seemed familiar with one of them--and he's right at hand when Tanya fingers former General Gennadi Vichenko to a soldier who kills him. Wanting his remaining targets alive and talking, Quiller promptly takes Tanya under his wing, learns that she and her brother Vadim had sworn private vengeance against Vichenko--a member of Podpolia, the hard-line underground determined to seize control of the former Sovie

Quiller Meridian

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Inspector Ikmen is troubled by the discovery of a body in one of the ancient cisterns beneath Istanbul. The dead girl was a friend of his daughter's and her body is found dressed in the elaborate costume of an Ottoman princess, but Ikmen must focus on a higher-profile investigation.

Harem

Stephanie Plum is the lone witness to a gang executed robbery and cop shooting. There's a contract issued for her head and a California-based killer looking to fill that contract. The tenth Stephanie Plum novel is filled with Evanovich's trademark high stakes, high adventure, high wit, and sly comedy.

Ten Big Ones

EVANOVICH, JANET

Don't Wake Me at Doyles: A Memoir

"Murphy's skillful storytelling and optimistic spirit give even the grimmest moments of her difficult life story levity in this hopeful, spunky sister to Angela's Ashes."- Publishers Weekly Maura Murphy's memoir of life in Ireland and beyond resonates with the people, places, and struggles of an almost forgotten generation. Born "chronically ugly and cross as a briar" into a poor, rural homestead in 1920s Ireland, Maura faced adversity from birth. She grew up in the bogs of the Irish countryside and left school at fourteen for Dublin, working in service there until her marriage to a hardworking but hard-drinking womanizer. Poverty stricken and hoping to find a better life for her five young children, she left Ireland with her family for 1950s Birmingham, England. But life doesn't always change when places do, and Maura's fear that she'd be "waked" at Doyles bar upon her death is funny but dead serious. Her voice is feisty and fearless, and she needed to be all those things to survive an extraordinary series of privations and abuses. And now, seventy-five and having survived her childhood, recovered from cancer, and left her marriage of fifty years, Maura has finally recorded the story of her life. Don't Wake Me at Doyles is the compelling account of a life set against by bad odds and worse luck: a memoir of survival and success in the face of the limits of class, education, nationality, religion, gender, and even health. A fearlessly honest writer, Maura invites us into her world, through her destructive marriage, and the birth of her nine children, and towards a life-or-death choice that would change her forever. Told with biting wit, Don't Wake Me at Doyles is a personal story of one woman's endurance, and the remarkable memoir of an ordinary woman's extraordinary life.

Don't wake me at Doyles: a memoir

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