Victor CANNING. LA PANTHERE AUX YEUX D'OR. Edition Hachette Point Rouge 1972, EPUISE EN LIBRAIRIE, broche, Format 11*16.5 cm, 156 pages. BON ETAT,
Traduit de l'anglais (Panther’s Moon, - 1948)
Publie aussi en francais sous les titres de CHASSE AUX ESPIONS et LE SECRET DE LA PANTHERE
Prenez un microfilm que s'arrachent tous les agents secrets d'Europe et d'ailleurs.
Voyagez en train escorté de deux panthères.
Cachez le document dans le collier de l'un de ces aimables félins... et le tour est joué...
Sauf si le train déraille... car vous voilà alors transformé en chasseur de fauves au côté d'une ravissante espionne qui vous veut du bien, mais talonné par des aventuriers sans scrupules qui, eux, ont beaucoup moins de raisons de vous ménager...
NON REEDITE en Français a l'heure actuelle
This is the first espionage thriller that Canning wrote. His war work in Italy had included some top secret activity, but this concerned technical research on radar and gunnery, and had nothing to do with espionage. Nonetheless, Canning never discouraged publishers and reviewers from suggesting that his espionage stories were based on experience.
The plot concerns Roger Quain who is taking two panthers, once the property of a fascist count, from Milan to his uncle's circus in Paris by train. He agrees to help a British secret agent, Catherine Talbot, by concealing microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. In Switzerland the train has an accident, the panthers escape, and a multifarious set of people with varied motivations set about hunting them down. The love story element is beautifully handled, since Catherine has to be weaned from her devotion to the memory of her dead lover in the Maquis, executed by a German firing squad. The final account of the killing of the male panther and the stand-off between Quain and his adversary is genuinely gripping. The whole book has dated remarkably little.
Sur Victor CANNING, prolifique auteur anglais de romans a suspense - en anglais :
https://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/canning/panther.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Canning
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