Estate of Ted Allbeury
Agent: Juliet Pickering
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth
Biography: Ex-MI6 Colonel, who became a best-selling thriller author. Len Deighton described Allbeury as ‘Truly a classic writer of espionage fiction.’ Desmond Bagley said of one of his books: ‘The best novel of espionage I have ever read.’
Allbeury’s thrillers are tense and realistic; he wrote with economy and a fine sense of drama. Several titles have been optioned for film and television. He also developed into a successful script-writer and short-story writer, and adapted three novels for BBC radio drama serials.
One novel (NO PLACE TO HIDE) was televised in 1992 and reprinted by Severn House in 2003 under the new title HOSTAGE, and a film based on an Allbeury character was made starring Michael Caine, released under the title BLUE ICE in 1992.
All 41 novels, and his volume of short stories, were reissued by Mulholland in English in 2013-14, as ebooks and print-on-demand.
Ted Allbeury died in December 2005.
THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JANUARY
Thriller, 224 pages
Hodder, January 2018 (originally 1982)
It's 1980 and the Cold War continues to rage. Seemingly out of nowhere, wealthy businessman Logan Powell has become President-elect and is weeks away from assuming the most powerful position in the world. Across the Atlantic, veteran British intelligence agent James MacKay uncovers shocking evidence that suggests something might be terribly wrong with the election. With the help of a reluctant CIA, MacKay sets out on a dangerous and daring mission to discover if the unthinkable has occurred: is President-elect Powell actually a puppet of the Soviet Union.
PALOMINO BLONDE
Thriller, 160 pages,
Mulholland ,2014
What does a man do when he discovers a process like Omega Minus?
He wishes he hadn't.
THE CHOICE
Fiction, 330 pages
Mulholland, 2014
A novel in three parts. We get to know a man whose wife discovers that he has been having an affair. She tells him to choose between her and the other woman.
A masterly examination of what causes people to make the decisions they make and what the repercussions can be.
ITALIAN ASSETS
Thriller, 164 pages
Mulholland, 2014
Abducted and blackmailed into selling his boat by a smooth Italian gangster, Max Farne is drawn into a wave of crime sweeping Italy, taking him back to the mountains to protect the beautiful daughter of a wartime friend.