Prelude to Terror

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PRELUDE TO TERROR
HELEN MacINNES
At the start, Colin Grant's assignment seems a curious but welcome adventure. Discreetly approached by an attractive, sophisticated woman in a New York art gallery, he is invited to a clandestine, late-night meeting to learn the details of her strange offer. As an art consultant on va-cation, Grant is to fly to Vienna and, with a letter of unlimited credit, is to purchase at auction—regardless of competing bidders—a painting by the Dutch master Ruysdael.
Grant's fee is generous, but not unex-pectedly so considering the wealth of his cliënt, a well-known collector and financier. To protect the present owner of the painting, a libertarían planning to escape from Communist Hungary to the West, Grant must pledge to keep his mission secret. In Vienna, the atmosphere of adventure abruptly becomes lethal. Grant is stunned to discover he is the key piece in a sinister puzzle, a conspiracy resorting to deception, fraud, kidnapping, and mur-der to unleash... Tovább

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PRELUDE TO TERROR
HELEN MacINNES
At the start, Colin Grant's assignment seems a curious but welcome adventure. Discreetly approached by an attractive, sophisticated woman in a New York art gallery, he is invited to a clandestine, late-night meeting to learn the details of her strange offer. As an art consultant on va-cation, Grant is to fly to Vienna and, with a letter of unlimited credit, is to purchase at auction—regardless of competing bidders—a painting by the Dutch master Ruysdael.
Grant's fee is generous, but not unex-pectedly so considering the wealth of his cliënt, a well-known collector and financier. To protect the present owner of the painting, a libertarían planning to escape from Communist Hungary to the West, Grant must pledge to keep his mission secret. In Vienna, the atmosphere of adventure abruptly becomes lethal. Grant is stunned to discover he is the key piece in a sinister puzzle, a conspiracy resorting to deception, fraud, kidnapping, and mur-der to unleash bloody international terrorism.
So starts this swift, thrilling, and pierc-ingly tópica! novel. Through its ingenious plotting and irresistible narrative shine,as always. Helen Maclnnes's passionate concern with human freedom and her celebraron of courage and love. Prelude to Terror, her eighteenth novel, is another triumph by the acknowledged and ac-claimed master of the art.
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