A Fair Trade Book
Title: War Game
Title: War Game
Author: Anthony Price
Publisher: Gollancz, 1976; Futura, 1979
Date: 1976 (U.K.), 1979 (U.S.)
ISBN: 0-7088-1621-5
Length: 255 pages
Quote: “You improve the odds, for a
fact. But you didn't call them.”
That's what a superordinate tells David
Audley, the main protagonist of War Game,
during Audley's assignment to uncover the sinister forces at work
when a history buff is murdered during a “reenactment” of an
historic battle.
It's a murder
mystery with a bit of international espionage and an historical
treasure hunt for flavor; a Communist Party type called Ratcliffe,
“The Red Rat,” has infiltrated a group of English Civil War
reenactors (identifying Cromwell's side with the Communist Party,
although, as Price notes in the course of the story, Cromwell harshly
suppressed the proto-communist or proto-hippie “Diggers”—and
they were Protestants). Not my favorite genre, and Price's narrative
style might seem easy-going to some readers who do like the genre, but I
enjoyed the English-countryside-summer atmosphere.
If you like
history, mystery, and the idea of Commie spies being tricked into
suicide through their own hypocritical greed, you will enjoy War
Game.
Anthony Price is still living, at last report, so War Game is a Fair Trade Book. Send us $5 per copy + $5 per package, we send $1 to Price or a charity of his choice. You could send us $45 for 8 copies and we'd send $8 to Price or his charity. E-mail and real mail addresses for this web site appear at the very bottom of the screen.
Anthony Price is still living, at last report, so War Game is a Fair Trade Book. Send us $5 per copy + $5 per package, we send $1 to Price or a charity of his choice. You could send us $45 for 8 copies and we'd send $8 to Price or his charity. E-mail and real mail addresses for this web site appear at the very bottom of the screen.
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