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Dark Passage
It was all bright sunlight and warm breezes on the French Riviera when Tommy Angel arrived that June to take over as skipper of the fabulous yacht Twin Tempest. Quite different from his three-year stint in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Tommy knew he was innocent and had been neatly framed, but now, after the murder of a not-so-innocent girl, he'd just about given up trying to prove it. But trouble was never far from Tommy Angel, and he came face-to-face with it, first off, in the well-shaped form of his new boss's beautiful wife, then in the person of his new boss's equally endowed girl friend and then, far out in the lovely Mediterranean night, more trouble overcame Tommy Angel, and he began to wonder if he'd been framed again. This time, however, Tommy wasn't going to be anybody's patsy and he set off on a one-man quest for the proof of his own innocence. And before it was all over, quite a number of beautiful people in quite a few beautiful gathering places were changed in permanent ways, some of them with bullets from Tommy Angel's own gun.
187 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1975
About the author
Andrew York
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Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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June 12, 2018
First novel I read by York (an alias he used for spy-fi, crime novels). This book came out in the mid-70s, after York had finished up his Eliminator series. Dark passage is a crime novel, at times a bit obvious, but still it was a gripping yarn. Like his previous books, York's female characters are well written. I'd say the Jonas Wilde books are better reads, but this was still fun, and recommended.
March 23, 2023
A typical mid-1970s thriller, enlivened by some well-described action at sea but let down by some inexplicable motivations and actions by many of the characters. Put away for a crime he didn’t commit, man-mountain Tommy Angel is released from prison after three years and is soon offered a job sailing for a shady millionaire on the French Riviera. The millionaire is murdered on board when Angel is doped and he takes a very long time to realise it, as femmes fatale and a greedy accountant attempt to carry out their nefarious schemes. Angel is too oblivious.
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