The Flowers of the Forest

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First published in 1980, The Flowers of the Forest is the third in Joseph Hone’s series of spy novels featuring British intelligence officer Peter Marlow. In the last few decades Hone’s standing in the field has been somewhat eclipsed by the likes of John le Carré and Len Deighton, but in his day he was widely seen as their equal. In 1972, Newsweek called the first novel in the series, The Private Sector, the best spy novel since Deighton’s Funeral in Berlin, while Isabel Quigly wrote of The Flowers of the Forest in the Financial Times:

This is the best thriller I’ve found in years, perhaps the best I remember — too serious and rich for the world thriller and what it implies, though sticking closely to the thriller genre — a novel about the mysteriousness of human beings rather than the mysteries of intelligence and diplomacy. The weaving of the story is so close, so tight, that no image, no hint, is ever wasted: everything links up with something else pages or chapters ahead … It all works without pretentiousness, going far beyond the limitations of its genre.

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