Operation Pax
Dodd, Mead (US) | |
Publication date | 1951 |
|---|---|
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | A Night of Errors |
| Followed by | A Private View |
Operation Pax is a 1951
farcical tone is often maintained. It was released in the United States under the alternative title
The Paper Thunderbolt.
Synopsis
A small-time
fiancée, an undergraduate who is gone missing. It turns out that he has vanished in the vicinity of the manor house, as has a refugee Austrian doctor
and her young son.
Only when Jane penetrates the clinic does she discover the full extent of the scheme. What the confidence trickster had thought was an
five pound notes is in fact the development of a brainwashing
technique that destroys any sense of human independence or resistance. The scheme is codenamed Operation Pax.
References
- ^ Reilly p.845
Bibliography
- Hubin, Allen J. Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Garland Publishing, 1984.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
- Scheper, George L. Michael Innes. Ungar, 1986.