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The Silent Hostage
First edition (UK)
AuthorSarah Gainham
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherEyre & Spottiswoode (UK)
E.P. Dutton (US)

Publication date

1960
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Silent Hostage is a 1960 spy thriller novel by the British writer Sarah Gainham.[1] Before writing her most celebrated work Night Falls on the City, Gainham produced several thrillers set in Continental Europe where she had lived since 1947.[2] The novel takes place on the Adriatic CoastofYugoslavia not long after the Second World War.

Synopsis[edit]

Kate Dodds, the widow of a British war hero, is invited by the Titoist Yugoslav government to visit the country where her husband served alongside the partisans. Before long she is caught up in intrigue amidst early Cold War politics.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Reilly p.624
  • ^ Burton p.171
  • Bibliography[edit]


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