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1975 Coronet edition paperback vg book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
251 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1968
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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