Book Review: John Creasey’s The Mark of the Crescent
An explosives inventor is on the run, pursued by enemy agents, and protected by Department Z.
Genre: thriller
Book Review: John Creasey’s A Kind of Prisoner
Someone knows every move Department Z agents make and Gordon Craigie is desperate to find the double agent before Department Z is destroyed.
Book Review: John Creasey’s Sabotage
The agents of Department Z are frustrated by the seemingly unconnected acts of sabotage at England’s food depots. That loss could find England’s citizens starving during wartime!
Book Review: John Creasey’s Death by Night
I received this book for free from my own shelves in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: my own shelves Death by Nightby John Creasey spy thriller in a Kindle edition that was published by Agora Books on August 1, 2016 and has 209 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Unbegotten, The Toff Goes On, Gideon and the Young Toughs and Other Stories, Introducing the Toff, The Peril Ahead, The Death Miser, Redhead, Carriers of Death, First Came a Murder, Death Round the Corner, Sabotage, A Kind of Prisoner, The Mark of the CrescentFourteenth in the Department Z vintage spy thriller series and revolving around an early version of the British Secret Service. The focus is on Mark Errol and Garry Cartwright. Death by Night was originally published in 1940. My Take It may have been published in 1940, but it takes place in 1941, six months after the outbreak of war — a “futuristic” novel, *grin*. Creasey is using a third person global subjective point-of-view, as perspectives from several characters, including their thoughts and […]
Book Review: John Creasey’s Death Round the Corner
Leopold Gorman studies the World Economic Conference with interest – and then picks five rich and powerful men to bring his plan to fruition. His only concern is Gordon Craigie and the men of Department Z. Can Craigie and his men outwit this master criminal before it’s too late?
Book Review: John Creasey’s First Came a Murder
A mad masquerade of murder, larceny, and deceit as Hugh Devenish of Department Z hunts down the murderer and discovers yet worse that could affect the entire nation, the whole world.
Book Review: Kelley Armstrong’s The Boy Who Cried Bear
It was a bear with human eyes that Max, the town’s youngest resident, saw. No one should go into the forest alone, and yet one does and then a dead body turns up.
Book Review: John Creasey’s Carriers of Death
Whispers bloom into rumors that explode into inciting news headlines — Britain is sabotaging American military vessels and bases even as British bases are blowing up around the country. Will Britain declare war?
Book Review: John Creasey’s Redhead
An American gangster brings his bloody business to 1930s Britain, threatening the economies of America and Britain, even as his plots lay siege to the men of Department Z.
Book Review: John Creasey’s The Death Miser
Millions of lives are at stake if a sinister international conspiracy succeeds. It’s up to England’s elite detective agency, Department Z, to make sure that doesn’t happen.