Andrew York
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Description
Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, Guyana, and was raised in the Caribbean. His education included: the Queen's College in Guyana; the Harrison College in Barbados; and was fellow by the Canadians Bankers Association. A romantic and passionate of history, he has been published since 1957 as Christopher Nicole, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring. His historical fiction sagas set in tumultuous periods of war have become in best-sellers, and he has won international acclaim for his work under several pseudonyms, some of there female, that includes: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He has worked with many of the most important British and international publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House. On 8 May 1982, Christopher married with the also writer Diana Bachmann. The marriage collabored under the pseudonym Max Marlow. With two sons and two daughters, they live in Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK.
Books
The Doom Fishermen
Twenty-three years old, a chess-playing athlete with an intensely individual point of view, Johnathan Anders is still in the middle of an intensive three-year training period when an emergency forces his superiors to use him in the field. The job is routine, to discover what has caused a Russian trawler to sail into the reefs off Guernsey in the Channel Islands. But Johnathan is not content with a routine investigation. Following his instincts with a determined courage which almost amounts to recklessness, he uncovers a plot so secret and so dangerous it has already cost the lives of eleven men. From that moment Johnathan is plunged into the most dramatic adventures of his life, culminating in a thrilling chase from the Channel Islands to the Outer Hebrides. Assigned to investigate the death of a fellow agent in the wreck of a Russian trawler, British spy Jonathan Anders must outwit the Russians, who want him dead, and the British police, who want him for murder.
Manhunt for a General
When a Polish general disappears from behind the Iron Curtain, British agent Jonathan Anders is assigned to find him.
The Combination
Was the combination a point of negotiation for the hostages? Does the Ayatollah now own the wealth of Iran? These are some of the questions Andrew York answers in the exciting denouement.
The Deviator
Jonas Wilde, Britain's top political assassin, has botched up his latest kill, and might have to pay for it with his life. Assigned to kill a top British scientist who may be defecting to the Soviets with the answer to nuclear survival, he carries ot his mission flawlessly only to discover he's killed an imposter. The real Everett Langtree is alive and well in Poland. He still has to kill the traitor. Accompanied by Langtree's estranged daughter, he heads behind the Iron Curtain, knowing full well that he is committing suicide. Once they reach Poland and, later, Moscow, thrills and intrigue engulf Wilde and Lynn like the Russian snow, and he finds himself adrift in an enemy land minus the use of his only weapon--his deadly right hand. When a group of Russians offer him safe passage home if he will do a job for them, the results can only be his Wildest adventure yet.
The Eliminator
This high-octane novel about the ultimate in counterespiionage, the "elimination" of enemy agents, moves with dizzying speed from the beaches of Barbados to the rock-strewn coasts of the Channel Islands. The reader is released from Andrew York's chilling and remarkable narrative only on the final page.
Tallant for Trouble
The first book in York's mystery series featuring Colonel James Munroe Tallant, police commissioner on a small West Indies island.
The Predator
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object in the field of death? In the dark underbelly of the mob, Tristan Caine has been an anomaly. As the only non-blooded member in the high circle of the Tenebrae Outfit, he is an enigma to all - his skills unparalleled, his morality questionable, and his motives unknown. He is lethal and he knows it. As does Morana Vitalio, the genius extraordinaire daughter of the rival family. What Caine does with weapons, Morana does with computers. When a twenty-year old mystery resurfaces, Morana infiltrates Caine's house, intent on killing him, unaware of a tie that binds them together. Hate, heat, and history clash together with unexpected sparks. But something bigger, something worse is happening in their world. And despite their animosity, only they can fight it down.
The captivator
British government's licensed assassin, Jonas Wilde, codename: Eliminator, this time attempting the rescue of a princess kidnapped from a yacht in the North Sea.
Tallant for Disaster
Hurricanes never occur in Grand Flamingo. Well, hardly ever, there was, after all, 1932 when the wind and water had swept almost everything away. But now, with a Grand Flamingo Conference of Caribbean Ministers right on top of them, the island's excitable Prime Minister, along with just about everybody else, refused to believe the unbelievable was right on top of them, too, a hurricane was headed straight for the Flamingan ocean paradise.
The Expurgator
Elimination section was a routine assigment for Jonas Wilde - it'll probably kill him. It has everything that James Bond had - and perhaps more.
Tallant for Terror
The island of Grand Flamingo seems idyllic until the moment terrorism and murder suddenly strike. This is the long-awaited return of Tallant, whose view of human nature lends him his own peculiar brand of cynicism and wry humour.
The Infiltrator
Jonas Wilde (code name: Eliminator) has been called the most dangerous man in the world. His chosen weapon is his own body, hardened into a highly efficient killing machine. His employer is the top-secret Elimination Section, charged with tracking down Britain's most dangerous enemies, and destroying them. The Section supplies Wilde's orders - and his protection. But what happens if someone tries to destroy the Section itself? This is precisely the question facing Wilde in this new thriller from Andrew York.
Appointment in Kiltone
Jonathan Anders is sent on assignment by British Intelligence to locate notes on an invention that will enable man to move about freely underwater.
The Fascinator
Jonas Wilde, presumably in retirement in Spain, when he's recruited by Jonquil Malone to work as a couple aboard the yacht of the Prince of Xanda, a vital Arab sheik on the side of the Israelis and the Western powers. They're hired to keep him alive.
Dark passage
Tommy Angel is framed and thrown in prison for three years, but is now a skipper to a fabulous yacht, but it looks like the crime is going to be repeated, but Tommy is not going down without a fight.
Tallant for Democracy
A potentially explosive affair and scandal in high places escalates after Colonel Munroe Tallant discovers a dead body on the beach, only a few feet away from where the prime minister's wife has been having her assignation.
Where the cavern ends
When his sister Carol is kidnapped on their Bermuda vacation, Mark Rimmer suddenly realizes his family is at the mercy of criminals who have planned this crime for some time. Mark and his friend Paul Martin have twenty-four hours to find her....
The Co-Ordinator
Name: Jonas Wilde. Profession: Assassin. Weapon: His hands. Only His hands.
