Quiller Meridian

Product Description
One agent dead plus a Russian contact out in the cold equals a mess for Quiller. His mission: locate the contact before he (the contact) gets blown away.
But no one anticipates an extremist coup. Suddenly the contact's in jeopardy and Quiller's caught in a murderous cross fire.
"Great adventure, brilliantly plotted and told." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)
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From Publishers Weekly
Hero of 16 earlier adventures ( Quiller Solitaire , et al.), the eponymous British agent can still be depended on for quick thinking and unflinching derring-do. Here, his mettle is put to the test in the former Soviet Union when he is called in to salvage Operation Meridian. Quiller travels from Rome to Bucharest to Moscow trailing a skittish Russian contact, who then books himself on the Rossiya (the Trans-Siberian Express), bound for Vladivostok. Quiller entrains too, and the book plunges into almost nonstop action. During the course of the narrative, Quiller is shot at, survives a car crash and a train wreck, and battles the Russian militia, the violent Stalinist Podpolia underground and a rogue ex-KGB agent who is fond of bombs. The final confrontation takes place in Novosibirsk with leaders of the Podpolia , who are plotting a coup with the Chinese and the rogue bomber. As ever, narrator Quiller's voice is knowing and insouciant, deftly turning plot points with razor-sharp characterizations and keeping readers on the edges of their seats. The subtleties of the spy trade--and the inadequacies of British intelligence--are nicely limned, as is life in the new Russia. Adam Hall is the pseudonym of Elleston Trevor ( Deathwatch ).
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
When Quiller, British secret agent extraordinaire, is called upon to take over a botched mission code-named Meridian, he finds himself on a train to Siberia. His assignment: to track Zymyanin, a Russian informant who has startling information for the West. Quiller soon discovers the existence of a plot by the Podpolia, hard-line Communists unwilling to yield power, which involves the Russian army. Before he is able to pursue this lead, Zymyanin is killed and Quiller is framed for his murder. Not only must he run from the police, but he must uncover the plot without alarming the conspirators. Hall ( Quiller Solitaire , Morrow, 1992) also introduces a subplot, adding even more twists to a story already full of action but light on characterization. At times, Quiller talks to himself, at other times to the reader, but in any case the terse prose provides a minimum of information. Recommended only for those who prefer action to anything else.\n- Roberta Pessah, St. John's Univ., New York
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
A blown rendezvous and a dead British agent in Bucharest send truculent veteran Quiller (Quiller Solitaire, etc.) to Moscow to contact Vladimir Zymyanin, the Russian agent who'd set up the meeting, and to find out the secret that was so vital and so dangerous. Zymyanin agrees to a meeting on the Trans-Siberian Express, but before he can do more than mutter imprecations about a troika of ex- generals aboard the train, he's shot, and Quiller is detained for his murder as the generals helicopter off into the sunset. A suspicious explosion in the generals' former car, however, allows Quiller to escape to the frigid town of Novosibirsk and resume his search for them by shadowing Tanya Rusakova, a clerk who seemed familiar with one of them--and he's right at hand when Tanya fingers former General Gennadi Vichenko to a soldier who kills him. Wanting his remaining targets alive and talking, Quiller promptly takes Tanya under his wing, learns that she and her brother Vadim had sworn private vengeance against Vichenko--a member of Podpolia, the hard-line underground determined to seize control of the former Sovie