The Salzburg Connection (novel)
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Publication date | 1968 |
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The Salzburg Connection is a 1968
spy novel by the British-born writer Helen MacInnes
. A British intelligence agent attempts to retrieve a box hidden in Austria containing a list of the names of Nazi collaborators left over from the war. Before long several other agencies are also after the prize.
Reception
A book review in The New York Times described the novel as "a fascinating exercise in wide-screen spymanship."[1]
The book was a commercial success. It ranked third among the top ten best-selling works of fiction in the United States for the year 1968, according to Publishers Weekly.[2]
Film adaptation
In 1972 the novel was adapted into a film of the same title directed by Lee H. Katzin and starring Barry Newman and Anna Karina.[3]
References
- ^ Hubin, Allen J. (15 September 1968). "Blackmail unlimited". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
- ISBN 0-8352-0908-3.)
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Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.