Blind Date [Large Print]

by James Pattinson

Steve Brady, reluctant secret agent and one-time antique dealer, had to take the jobs that were offered - not only because he needed the money but also because they could twist his arm till the bones... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786263377
• ISBN13: 9780786263370
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Thorndike Press

Customer Reviews

Classic 1978 Pattinson and One of His Best

Pattinson's work varies in quality and a lot of his older work is very dated. Although this one was written in 1978 and is set in Communist run Poland and East Germany it really isn't too dated. Obviously you need to temporarily forget the cold war ended and that Poland and East Germany are now part of the European Union but unlike a lot of other cold war era novels this one doesn't really harp on the anti Communist propaganda so history has not proven it to be that far fetched or inaccurate. In Blind Date Steve Brady has a substantial gambling debt and is saved from a beating by an organisation offering to pay off his debt if he just takes a trip to Poland. He does not want to go but figures he will be worse off if he says no so gets on the ship with a fake passport bound for Gdansk. He is told nothing of what he is supposed to pick up or where he will pick up it up just that he will receive instructions from his next contact when he gets to the hotel. He is forever kept in the dark but one of his contacts Paula, like most Polish women is a hot blond so he does not mind so much when she tells him she will be accompanying him to his next contact. However his next contact can't tell him much because he is dead so although things are going badly he and Paula have no choice but to continue the journey to Brady's next contact but nothing seems to be going as planned and Brady of course has no idea what that plan actually is. This is one of my favourite Pattinson novels even though it was written before I was born it is still just as good and could have been set in a modern background like the Middle East quite easily. Pattinson novels are quite simple and light reading. He does write in a style where his characters use words that show Pattinson is obviously an old man but that does add something to the novels. Other Pattinson novels worth checking out are Obituary for Howard Grey, Crane, The Animal Gang, The Time of Your Life, The Golden Reef and Life Preserver to name but a few.