Ride a Pale Horse (45 page)

Bristow’s eyes had followed her glance. “And beautiful,” he said. “I didn’t know whether to look at you or listen. But I did both.”

“And started all your troubles. Including me.”

“That’s one I want to keep with me for the rest of my life.” He lifted his bag out of the back seat.

She laughed and held out her hand. He grasped it firmly. Together, they mounted the steps and entered the house.

Helen MacInnes, whom the
Sunday Express
called ‘the Queen of spy writers’, was the author of many distinguished suspense novels.

Born in Scotland, she studied at the University of Glasgow and University College, London, then went to Oxford after her marriage to Gilbert Highet, the eminent critic and educator. In 1937 the Highets went to New York, and except during her husband’s war service, Helen MacInnes lived there ever since.

Since her first novel
Above Suspicion
was published in 1941 to immediate success, all her novels have been bestsellers;
The Salzburg Connection
was also a major film.

Helen MacInnes died in September 1985.

A series of slick espionage thrillers from
The New York Times
bestselling “Queen of Spy Writers.”

Pray for a Brave Heart

Above Suspicion

Assignment in Brittany

North From Rome

Decision at Delphi

The Venetian Affair

The Salzburg Connection

Message from Málaga

While We Still Live

The Double Image

Neither Five Nor Three

Horizon

Snare of the Hunter

Agent in Place

Prelude to Terror
(August 2013)

The Hidden Target
(September 2013)

I and My True Love
(October 2013)

Cloak of Darkness
(November 2013)

Rest and Be Thankful
(December 2013)

Friends and Lovers
(January 2014)

Home is the Hunter
(February 2014)

“The queen of spy writers.”
Sunday Express

“Definitely in the top class.”
Daily Mail

“The hallmarks of a MacInnes novel of suspense are as individual and as clearly stamped as a Hitchcock thriller.”
The New York Times

“A sophisticated thriller. The story builds up to an exciting climax.”
Times Literary Supplement

“Absorbing, vivid, often genuinely terrifying.”
Observer

“She can hang her cloak and dagger right up there with Eric Ambler and Graham Greene.”
Newsweek

“An atmosphere that is ready to explode with tension... a wonderfully readable book.”
The New Yorker

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