The Conduct of Major Maxim

by Lyall, Gavin

• ISBN13: 9781448200351
• ISBN10: 1448200350
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-12-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader

Summary

Major Harry Maxim is ex-SAS and he now works as a special member of number 10's backroom staff, advising the PM on matters of defence and security. This time he is going to be drawn into the shadowy - and deadly - world of East-West intrigue

A deserting English corporal, a cabinet convulsion in East Germany, a double murder in a small West German town, and a widowed piano teacher in Yorkshire: they're all somehow related by a dark secret from the past, and it's down to Harry Maxim to uncover before it's too late.

First published in 1982, The Conduct of Major Maxim is the second novel in his Harry Maxim series.

Author Biography

Gavin Lyall (1932-2003) lived in Hampstead and enjoyed sailing on the Thames in his motor cruiser. From 1959 to 1962 he was a newspaper reporter and the aviation correspondent for the Sunday Times. His first novel, The Wrong Side of the Sky, was published in 1961, drawing from his personal experiences in the Libyan Desert and in Greece. Lyall left journalism in 1963 to become a full-time author, writing 17 novels before his death in 2003.