LYALL, GAVIN — The Crocus List

Londom, Pan. 1986, 1st Pbk Ed.. (ISBN: 0330291955) Pbk. Book, When three shots from a Russian rifle narrowly miss the American President at a Westminster Abbey memorial service, it is the assassin's bad luck that Major Harry Maxim is on duty just outside, but it isn't good luck for Maxim either. The story takes him from the American Midwest to the far side of the Berlin Wall, one jump or less ahead of the KGB and the FBI. The book is a blend of subltety, violence, stylish humour and deadly seriousness. Crisp clean neat copy. Fine.