The Spy in Black - Hardcover
If any one had been watching the bay that August night (which, fortunately for us, there was not), they would have seen up till an hour after midnight as lonely and peaceful a scene as if it had been some inlet in Greenland. The war might have been waging on another planet. The segment of a waning moon was just rising, but the sky was covered with clouds, except right overhead where a bevy of stars twinkled, and it was a dim though not a dark night. The sea was as flat and calm as you can ever get on an Atlantic coast -- a glassy surface, but always a gentle regular bursting of foam upon the beach. In a semicircle the shore rose black, towering at either horn (and especially on the south) into high dark cliffs.
It was wartime, and I was preparing to infiltrate the enemy. A serious, serious moment.
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About the Author:
Joseph Storer Clouston (1870 - 1944) was a Scottish author and historian. Soon after embarking on a career as a writer, he published one of his most popular novels, The Lunatic at Large. He was also a historian, author of a great history of Orkney, a founding member and second president of the Orkney Antiquarian Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. His The Spy in Black was made into a successful film in the late 1930s. His First Offence was also filmed in France as Drôle de drame (directed by Marcel Carné, 1937).
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- PublisherAegypan
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1463896395
- ISBN 13 9781463896393
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages152
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