Word: ambusher
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...Ambush for the Hunter, by F. L. Green. Communist spies, British counterspies and muted heartbreak in a British middle-class marriage, all adding up to rattling good suspense (TIME...
...AMBUSH FOR THE HUNTER (307 pp.)-F. L Green-Random House...
...solves its most conspicuous crime-the murder of the King's English. But there are a few mystery writers who do not use the pen as a blunt instrument. Such are Britain's Howard Clewes and the late F. L. Green.* Neither An Epitaph for Love nor Ambush for the Hunter will floor anyone with surprises, but each crackles with suspense and crisp, literate prose...
Cozy Purgatory. Perhaps the more accomplished of the two gooseflesh impresarios is F. L. (Odd Man Out) Green. His Ambush for the Hunter uncoils in a simple setting of domestic infelicity. Charles and Edna are a middle-aged London couple who have been putting a good face on their bad marriage for so long that they have almost forgotten what it really looks like. Charles is a well-placed civil servant with the aplomb of a head waiter and the moral fiber of an eel. Edna retreats into a cocoon of modern books, music and art. Into this cozy purgatory...
...Edna finds that she still loves Charles too much to give his scheme away. But matters are not really in her hands, for in the background lurk two rival espionage teams, led by a vulpine Commie and a cagey British agent. Between them, they pull the plot strings of Ambush into a tight, ironic noose...