Private Dancers or Responsible Women

Auteur

Andrew Parkin has worked as a butcher, a delivery boy on a bike, a Russian Linguist in the Royal Air Force and a teacher in schools and universities. He has lived in England, Scotland, Germany, France, Australia, Hong Kong, and Canada. Arriving in Canada in 1970 he became a Canadian citizen after almost four years of residence in Vancouver, BC. His published books are mainly about drama, though he has published nine books of his original poetry and a previous novel, Private Dancers or Responsible Women. This novel showed how female agents working for security forces respond to terrorist attacks. Bruno's Secret tracks the fate of double agents such as the Cambridge Arabist Dr Westlake and Bruno himself. Andrew is now revising a third anti-terrorist novel to complete the trilogy.

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Journalist Paul Wills tells his friends Graham Curtis and Mary Rao about his strange experiences with the beautiful Kalitza, a mystery woman he encountered in Hong Kong and Europe. When Graham's wife is murdered, he gradually overcomes his grief with the help of his friends. Who is the mysterious Kalitza? Will Paul find her again and make love to her? Will secret agent Kim survive a grenade attack in a London hotel? Is her colleague, the grotesque Bruno, a double agent? Is Scotland the best place for proposals of marriage? Is Sutton Coldfield the sexiest little town in Britain? Find out the answers and the meaning of responsibility in Private Dancers or Responsible Women: A Novel of Intrigue. About the Author Andrew Parkin was educated in Birmingham, Cambridge, and Bristol. His military service was as a Russian linguist in Berlin during the Cold War. He has been a university professor in Canada and Hong Kong. He now divides his time between Paris and Vancouver, Canada. This is his 24th book and he is writing the sequel. Publisher's website: http://sbprabooks.com/AndrewParkin