Venetian Affair is no exception. The Venetian Affair is a 1967 spy film directed by Jerry Thorpe and starring Robert Vaughn and Elke Sommer. MacInnes gives us enough interior landscape of the characters - their inner dialogue with themselves - to make the people sympathetic to us. Lots of intrigue and having lived through the "Cold War" period in the 60's, I found the story very plausible. Once the action moves from Paris to Venice, it's non-stop as the main characters are constantly on the move, trying to outsmart the enemy. We’d love your help. Being set in Paris and then in Venice also gives it added interest. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father. She wrote many bestselling suspense novels and became an American citizen in 1951. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The female spy was strong until she fell in love.I don't think it is dated. I think I picked it up at a local library about 5 years ago. Since both these women are depicted throughout as intelligent and capable, I had a hard time buying these late-inning lapses of judgement. I haven't re-read it in almost 50 years (! So sexist and so long... but modern for the time. A woman seduces a professional golfer, then offers to kill his opponent if the golfer will kill her psychiatrist, who wants her committed. One character actually thinks about another one, "You're as pretty a piece of honey cake as I've ever seen." During the Cold War the Communists are clearly the bad guys and anyone who listens to them are dupes. by Fawcett Another well written book about how well the enemies of freedom skillfully work at undermining the peoples' trust in the American government and principles which we have historically held to among our own people and the world. Elke Sommer, Felicia Farr, Edward Asner and Boris Karloff are among the players in this trenchcoated tale of Cold War espionage and paranoia based on a book by veteran thriller author Helen MacInnes and flavorfully shot … Set about 50% in de Gaulle's Paris and 50% in timeless Venice, the inevitable amateur joins forces with US and British pros to battle Communists and of course fall in love - all before cocktails and dinner. Approved | 1h 29min | Action, Thriller | 10 February 1967 (Ireland) Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. It is brilliantly plotted, human, and makes one wish for a time when we were still the good guys.This makes an amazing starting place for the shamefully overlooked novels of a terrific writer. I am looking forward to revisiting the era.I first read this sometime in the mid '60s ('63?'64?
A librarian, she married Professor Gilbert Highet in 1932 and moved with her husband to New York in 1937 so he could teach classics at Columbia University. After his sickly wife's sudden death of an asthma attack, an unscrupulous doctor discovers that she has a doppelgänger who is a burlesque dancer, not aware of the intricate scheme that's being weaved around him. It is a book about a different time in history. A seductive starlet flees Hollywood and causes chaos for a real estate agent.
Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Thriller I am looking forward to revisiting the era.I was very pleased when the Helen MacInnes novels began to appear as ebooks in 2013. And some people fall in love with books about falling in love. ), so it will be interesting to see how well it holds up during our Feb '18 Retro Reads group read. She graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1928 with a degree in French and German. When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money and keep it for themselves. A great read!This was a very enjoyable read...well, reread, as I first read it in the 70s. 26 of 30 people found this review helpful. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. It felt as if I were watching a vintage movie, and that isn't a criticism. )* and loved it. Our Stores Are OpenBook AnnexMembershipEducatorsGift CardsStores & EventsHelp. )Helen MacInnes was one of the top performers in the romantic spy thriller genre of yesteryear. This is a re-read from high school. Since both these women are depicted throughout as intelligent and capable, I had a hard time buying these late-inning lapses of judgement. ), so it will be interesting to see how well it holds up during our Feb '18 Retro Reads group read. The way our hero gets involved in the plot was clever and MacInnes' portrays him as curious, intelligent, brave, vulnerable, and This is my first Helen MacInnes book and I enjoyed the plot, setting descriptions, and characters.
It's a very well made, suspenseful and dramatic work, based on Helen MacInnes' novel of the same name. Her books from the 1940s had the Nazis as the villains and her books from the 1970s used terrorists.This is my first Helen MacInnes book and I enjoyed the plot, setting descriptions, and characters. MacInnes gives us enough interior landscape of the characters - their inner dialogue with themselves - to make the people sympathetic to us. Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a peace conference. An industrial designer causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a rival company. Helen MacInnes was an author who could really keep the suspense going, without vicarious violence. Lots of intrigue and having lived through the "Cold War" period in the 60's, I found the story very plausible.
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