The Doubtful Disciple

by William Haggard

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192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

William Haggard (born Croydon 11 August 1907, died Frinton-on-Sea 27 October 1993) was the pseudonym of Richard Henry Michael Clayton, the son of the Rev. Henry James Clayton and Mabel Sarah Clayton. He was an English writer of fictional spy thrillers set in the 1960s through the 1980s, or, as the writer H. R. F. Keating called them, "action novels of international power." Like C. P. Snow, he was a quintessentially British Establishment figure who had been a civil servant in India, and his books vigorously put forth his perhaps idiosyncratic points of view. The principle character in most of his novels is the urbane Colonel Charles Russell of the fictional Security Executive, (clearly based on the actual MI5 or Security Service), who moves easily and gracefully along Snow's Corridors of Power in Whitehall. During the years of the fictional spy mania initially begun by the James Bond stories, Haggard was considered by most critics to be at the very top of the field.

Reviews

[Henry Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book because, back in the 1950s, they WERE trying to create a bio-weapon called Selective Pigmentation Disease based on the amount of melanin in the body.

They expunged it, but because SPD, was still an acronym that might suggest it, prompted them to create Segmental Pigmentation Disorder. Do you believe they aren't trying to create something similar using DNA research?