Ride a Pale Horse

by Helen MacInnes

Paperback, 1985

Status

Available

Publication

Fawcett (1985), Edition: Reissue, Paperback

Description

Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: When journalist Karen Cornell is invited to a peace conference in Prague, she only goes on the understanding that she will be granted a valuable interview. Instead she finds herself chosen for a more hazardous task: carrying top-secret documents from a potential Czech defector back to Washington. With the papers safely in the hands of Peter Bristow, the one CIA man Karen can trust, she is sure her part in the drama is over, but soon she is pulled into an astonishing web of blackmail, assassination and treason at the highest level. There is a mole in the CIA and it is Bristow's job to find it, as well as protecting Karen from an unknown enemy. With Karen's life in danger and time running out, they must uncover a plot that threatens the very heart of US Intelligence..… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member BonnieJune54
The author was born in 1907 and I'm afraid it shows .While it's not unbelievable that an amateur finding herself in a nest of spies would later take a backseat to the professionals, I've read enough of this author to know that if it'd been a male amateur he would've stayed front and center being in
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charge and making the decisions. I still like the book despite the heroine turning into a damsel in distress. It had a steady stream of action. It was not preachy. It delved into many aspects of the spy business.
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LibraryThing member bereanna
Helen has been a favorite author since the late 70’s for me for escapism. The Cold War in Prague, Rome, and DC are sites for this cloak and dagger suspense, along with a dated romance.

Language

Original publication date

1984

Physical description

369 p.; 6.6 inches

ISBN

0449207269 / 9780449207260
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