The Stone Roses
First edition (UK)
AuthorSarah Gainham
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreSpy Thriller
PublisherEyre and Spottiswoode
Publication date
1959
Media typePrint

The Stone Roses is a 1959 spy thriller novel by the British writer Sarah Gainham.[1] It is set in Prague shortly after the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.[2]

Synopsis

In 1948 an agent goes missing in Czechoslovakia, British spy Toby Elyat is sent in under cover as a newspaper reporter to try and locate him. Before long he is entangled with the operatives of the Soviet intelligence agency MGB.

References

  1. Reilly p.624
  2. Burton p.171

Bibliography

  • Burton, Alan. Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.


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