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Price of Silence
Never one to back down from a challenge…
Legendary British agent Trevor Maxon is laid up in a CIA hospital, recovering from a bullet wound in his abdomen obtained in his latest mission.
It’s a challenging job fraught with danger, but Maxon is bored and keen to be returned to active status.
He finds his post-mission tranquillity shattered when the television programme he is watching is abruptly interrupted by a Nuclear Alert warning.
The shock of threat of a nuclear attack is rapidly replaced by a relief that such an attack is not forthcoming — and is followed by suspicions about how and why the nuclear alert was broadcast in the first place.
Although the alert is rescinded almost immediately, it raises the public’s panic levels.
As part of a security taskforce whose duty is to safeguard the Global Early Warning System, or GLEW, Maxon is swiftly launched on an investigation of how the alert came to be accidentally broadcast to the public in the first place.
As he chases the truth, Maxon finds himself framed for murder and treason, and must be constantly on the run in order to escape falling into the hands of his enemies — and even Maxon isn’t entirely certain just who those enemies are anymore.
His investigation takes him around the world, from Washington to Stockholm, London to Nice, as he struggles against superior officers and other security agents blocking his path to the truth.
Something isn’t right — he knows it, but can’t quite put his finger on what.
The enormity of what he eventually finds puts at risk, not only his future, but also that of the woman he loves…
Legendary British agent Trevor Maxon is laid up in a CIA hospital, recovering from a bullet wound in his abdomen obtained in his latest mission.
It’s a challenging job fraught with danger, but Maxon is bored and keen to be returned to active status.
He finds his post-mission tranquillity shattered when the television programme he is watching is abruptly interrupted by a Nuclear Alert warning.
The shock of threat of a nuclear attack is rapidly replaced by a relief that such an attack is not forthcoming — and is followed by suspicions about how and why the nuclear alert was broadcast in the first place.
Although the alert is rescinded almost immediately, it raises the public’s panic levels.
As part of a security taskforce whose duty is to safeguard the Global Early Warning System, or GLEW, Maxon is swiftly launched on an investigation of how the alert came to be accidentally broadcast to the public in the first place.
As he chases the truth, Maxon finds himself framed for murder and treason, and must be constantly on the run in order to escape falling into the hands of his enemies — and even Maxon isn’t entirely certain just who those enemies are anymore.
His investigation takes him around the world, from Washington to Stockholm, London to Nice, as he struggles against superior officers and other security agents blocking his path to the truth.
Something isn’t right — he knows it, but can’t quite put his finger on what.
The enormity of what he eventually finds puts at risk, not only his future, but also that of the woman he loves…
Hardcover
Published January 1, 1983
About the author
Stephen Barlay
37 books1 followerBorn Istvàn Bokor to a Jewish family in Budapest. Barlay's childhood was marked by a massacre in the block in which he lived, the loss of his father to forced labour and many other family members to the Auschwitz deportations. After the Second World War, Barlay became a radio journalist.
On 23 October 1956, Barlay was in the headquarters of Hungarian radio as the first shots of the revolution were fired outside. With the Soviet invasion under way, and arrest imminent, he escaped from Hungary, accompanied by Àgi, the woman he had married weeks before and with whom he would spend the rest of his life.
From the moment he arrived, he saw Britain as his home, although his first novel was based on the events of 1956. Four Black Cars, written with another refugee, the film director Peter Sasdy, began a career that resulted in 14 books. Barlay wrote most of his books in English - his adopted language. He wrote investigative works such as Sex Slavery (1968), Aircrash Detective (1969), Fire (1972) and Double Cross (1973), about industrial espionage. A BBC TV adaptation of the latter, The Double Dealers, was broadcast in 1974. His fiction includes the 1976 thriller Blockbuster, the plot of which involved a wartime munitions ship that still lies wrecked in the Thames estuary.
Barlay suffered a stroke in 2008 and passed away three years later. He was survived by his wife Àgi and sons Nick and Robin Barlay.
On 23 October 1956, Barlay was in the headquarters of Hungarian radio as the first shots of the revolution were fired outside. With the Soviet invasion under way, and arrest imminent, he escaped from Hungary, accompanied by Àgi, the woman he had married weeks before and with whom he would spend the rest of his life.
From the moment he arrived, he saw Britain as his home, although his first novel was based on the events of 1956. Four Black Cars, written with another refugee, the film director Peter Sasdy, began a career that resulted in 14 books. Barlay wrote most of his books in English - his adopted language. He wrote investigative works such as Sex Slavery (1968), Aircrash Detective (1969), Fire (1972) and Double Cross (1973), about industrial espionage. A BBC TV adaptation of the latter, The Double Dealers, was broadcast in 1974. His fiction includes the 1976 thriller Blockbuster, the plot of which involved a wartime munitions ship that still lies wrecked in the Thames estuary.
Barlay suffered a stroke in 2008 and passed away three years later. He was survived by his wife Àgi and sons Nick and Robin Barlay.
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