Dennis Wheatley
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Dennis Yeats Wheatley was a British writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through to the 1960s. His Gregory Sallust series was one of the main inspirations for Ian Fleming's James Bond stories.
Books
Come into my parlour
Come Into My Parlour is the fifth of seven volumes incorporating all the principal events which occurred between September 1939, and May 1945, covering the activities of Gregory Sallust, one of the most famous Secret Agents ever created in fiction about the Second World War. Much of the action of the story takes place inside the Soviet Union, commencing with Russia entering the war against Nazi Germany. There to counter Gregory's plans is his arch-enemy, Gruppenfuhrer Grauber, as anxious as ever to settle the long-standing score which has existed between them, and as plot and counter-plot carry the story to a Swiss lakeside villa, the final scenes are played out in a sinister castle situated deep in the heart of a German forest.
"Old Rowley"
Historical novel about the life of King Charles II in 1600s England.
Strange conflict
A story set in the Second World War, featuring the Duke de Richleau who is faced with a problem of the utmost importance: what methods are the enemy using to discover the secret routes of the Atlantic convoys? His answer is at once bizarre and fantastic: the enemy is in touch with supernatural powers which can only be overcome by those who dare to join battle with them on the Astral Plane.
Such power is dangerous
When Avril Bamborough left London on a Hollywood contract she little thought that she would fall in love with another woman's fiancé, become the head of a great film corporation, and face the third degree on a charge of murder. But when a group of unscrupulous financiers determine to gain control of the entire film industry, and employ strikes, arson, and paid gunmen ruthlessly to break up all opposition to their monopoly, anything may happen. How the best elements of the industry in America and England combined to fight the monopoly and the breathless episodes of Avril Bamborough's romance are set forth with thrill upon thrill in Such Power is Dangerous.
The eunuch of Stamboul
He had been sent to Istanbul to check rumours of a planned uprising. But as a spy Destime was an amateur, alone in a city of intrigue and fear, a dark web in whose centre squatted the repulsive form of Kazdim Hari Bekar, formerly a Palace eunuch, now Chief of the Secret Police. A job which admirably suited his own depraved personal tastes.