The Endless Game

by Bryan Forbes

Book Overview

After his former lover and colleague, British agent Caroline Oates, is tortured and murdered by the KGB, Alec Hillsden sets out to discover why. 2 cassettes. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394548493
• ISBN13: 9780394548494
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Soild Effort

Not a bad little page-turner. I liked the story line; it has been done before, but not this well. The book sneaks up on you and really [stinks] you in. You find your self almost hurrying to the next page because the suspense builds through to the end of the book. Very good characters with competent development and well thought out roles within the story. I would have liked a bit more detail on the locations. Overall a good book from the period.

A Great Spy Thriller

The Endless Game is the first of a two-book series (the second is: A Spy at Twilight) in the vein of the Le Carre "Karla" quartet. Mr. Forbes also played his part in that "game" and writes with considerable authority. The book is well-crafted and grips you as you work through the developing enigma and misleading clues with the protagonist. The characters are complex and believable, the plot consistent and the outcome unguessable until the last pages. Altogether, a most satisfying read for lovers of spy fiction.