Dennis Wheatley

The Gregory Sallust Series (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Before there was James Bond, there was Gregory Sallust.' Tina Rosenberg, Salon.com
Dennis Wheatley's complete, bestselling Gregory Sallust series featuring the debonair spy Gregory Sallust, a forerunner to Ian Fleming's James Bond.

During WWII, Dennis Wheatley was hired by Winston Churchill to be a part of a highly confidential group of strategists. He was one of the only civilians to be recruited, on the strength that he had shown a flair for deception and cover stories in his novels, particularly through his incarnation of Gregory Sallust - widely regarded as the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond. This complete collection includes the following titles in chronological order of events as they occur within the novels:

CONTRABAND
THE SCARLET IMPOSTOR
FAKED PASSPORT
THE BLACK BARONESS
V FOR VENGEANCE
COME INTO MY PARLOUR
TRAITORS' GATE
THEY USED DARK FORCES
THE ISLAND WHERE TIME STANDS STILL
BLACK AUGUST
THE WHITE WITCH OF THE SOUTH SEAS

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448215072
• Artikelnr.: 41868975

Autorenporträt

Dennis Yates Wheatley (1897-1977) was an English author whose prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling writers from the 1930s through the 1960s. His Gregory Sallust series was one of the main inspirations for Ian Fleming's James Bond stories.

Born in South London, he was the eldest of three children of an upper-middle-class family, the owners of Wheatley & Son of Mayfair, a wine business. He admitted to little aptitude for schooling, and was expelled from Dulwich College. Soon after his expulsion Wheatley became a British Merchant Navy officer cadet on the training ship HMS Worcester. During the Second World War, Wheatley was a member of the London Controlling Section, which secretly coordinated strategic military deception and cover plans. His literary talents gained him employment with planning staffs for the War Office. He wrote numerous papers for the War Office, including suggestions for dealing with a German invasion of Britain. During his life, he wrote more than 70 books which sold over 50 million copies.