The Life Line

Name: The Life Line
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9781739879402
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By Phyllis Bottome

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Mark Chalmers, 36, dark-haired, athletic, keen on skiing and winter sports, speaks fluent French and German and has a taste for wine, food, and women. Sounds familiar? It is 1938, pre the Munich Agreement and post Anschluss. Chalmers, a master at Eton, is recruited by an... Read More

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The Life Line

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Classic Espionage reissued for the first time in 30 years. Phyllis Bottome taught Ian Fleming to write. Seven years after publication Fleming's Casino Royale was published with striking similarities

Phyllis Bottome was a highly regarded author in the 40’s and 50’s and The Life Line was first published by Faber on rationed paper in 1946. Phyllis and her husband set up a school in Austria where Ian Fleming was sent to after he was kicked out of Eton to learn to write. Seven years later his Casino Royale was published an almost direct copy of The Lifeline. The second book in the Muswell Classic Espionage Series. Available for the first time in 30 years

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Mark Chalmers, 36, dark-haired, athletic, keen on skiing and winter sports, speaks fluent French and German and has a taste for wine, food, and women. Sounds familiar?

It is 1938, pre the Munich Agreement and post Anschluss. Chalmers, a master at Eton, is recruited by an old friend at the Foreign Office and introduced to his boss, ‘B’.

Chalmers reluctantly agrees to take on a hazardous mission for British Intelligence – to parachute into Nazi-occupied Austria and pass on information to a British agent. In case of trouble, he is given a suicide pill.

Chalmers has no intention of committing himself beyond this one job, but once he reaches his destination, he finds himself sucked into the cause fighting fascism with the Austrian-German Underground - until there is no turning back.

The Life Line by Phyllis Bottome is a gripping tale of danger and espionage, set against the backdrop of a Europe on the brink of war.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781739879402

Publisher: Muswell Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 March 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Muswell Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 224

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Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Phyllis Bottome

About the Author

Phyllis Bottome was a highly regarded prolific author in the mid 20th century. With her husband Ernan Forbes Dennis, a former diplomat and spy, she set up a school in Kitzbühel, Austria and it was there, after he was thrown out of Eton, that she taught Ian Fleming to write. Amongst her many bestsellers was The Mortal Storm made into a prescient anti-fascist film which became a Hollywood blockbuster starring James Stewart. She died in London in 1963.