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Journalist Sam Craven, reluctantly enlisted for a secret mission in Iceland, finds himself being questioned by the top spy catcher.
Colin Dunne’s brilliant novel is a reading treat. For earlier chapters please click on http://www.openwriting.com/archives/black_ice/
After the disappearance of the Icelandic beauty Solrun reluctant spy Sam Craven is arrested and subjected to some hard questioning.
To read earlier chapters of Colin Dunne’s brilliant novel please click on http://www.openwriting.com/archives/black_ice/
...I heard the ping of the lift. I wasn't ready to do any entertaining. I nipped to the window and when I saw what was standing outside I experienced a small but unpleasant heart-leap.
One white Volvo. One Harley Davidson motor-bike. Even when they choose vehicles for their police force, the Icelanders try to show no favouritism between their American and their Scandinavian friends...
Journalist Sam Craven, a reluctant spy, wakes up in the flat of his former Icelandic girl to discover that Solrun has fled the nest. And now he has visitors of the official kind.
To read earlier chapters of Colin Dunne’s witty novel please click on http://www.openwriting.com/archives/black_ice/
...'Two,' she whispered, sinking deeper into the silk. 'Two men who say they love me. Two men who want to take me away.'
'That's what free enterprise is all about — choice. And your choice not to go if you don't want to.'
Then, in a voice no louder than the soft brush of my ringers on her skin, she said: 'I think perhaps they will kill me.'...
Journalist Sam Craven, sent on a spying mission to Iceland to make contact with his beautiful former girl friend Solrun, is shocked into silence.
To read earlier chapters of Colin Dunne’s brilliant thriller please click on http://www.openwriting.com/archives/black_ice/
...She was slim, the handy, tuck-under-your-arm size, and she was composed entirely of lovely round pieces which were joined up with lovely slim pieces. What she meant to me personally was friendship and sex. It's a much-neglected combination. Without absurd hopes and false promises, like love for instance, you can keep a clear head to enjoy what's going on. It can lead to all sorts of unfashionable abstractions, like trust and respect, and they don't weather too well when love's around...
Sam Craven, a journalist who has relunctantly become a spy, recalls his first meeting with the Icelandic beauty, Solrun.
To read earlier chapters of Colin Dunne’s exuberant novel please click on http://www.openwriting.com/archives/black_ice/
...They fly north in matching pairs, white-haired, ruddy-faced, retired teachers, husbands and wives who have grown alike over the years.
The flight was full of them. All wearing shirts made from that stuff Scotsmen use for kilts. If you'd asked a question about Jurassic rock formation, every hand in the place would have been raised...
But journalist Sam Craven, on his way to Iceland to do a spot of spying for his country, meets a couple of characters on the flight who are far from the norm.
To read earlier chapters of Colin Dunne’s hilarious novel please click on http://www.openwriting.com/archives/black_ice/
...The editor didn't bother to introduce himself because he assumed everyone knew him. He was right. Throughout the newspaper business, he was known as Grimm, on account of the fact that his paper consisted almost entirely of fairy tales. He was a frenzied young northerner who'd found that the streets of London were paved with gold, so long as you didn't mind wading through the sewers first...
Sam Craven, a freelance journalist who has agreed to go on a spying mission to Iceland, gets the perfect cover to account for his visit.
To read earlier chapters of Colin Dunne’s sparkling novel please click on http://www.openwriting.com/archives/black_ice/
'Excellent point.' He looked at me as, with one stiffened finger, he stroked his sad moustache as though he expected it to bolt for cover down his throat. 'Yes, excellent question. You see, we rather assume that you have the usual sort of loyalty to your country.'
Freelance journalist Sam Craven grudgingly allows himself to be talked into a spying mission in Iceland.
Journalist and author Colin Dunne continues his tale - with wit sparkling from every line - of cold war espionage.
...'What we're asking is for you to pop up to Reykjavik as an old friend, see what's going on, and do what you can to steer her away from any foolishness. I'm sure it will all become clear once you're there.'
'It certainly isn't clear now.'
He shrugged and dabbed at his face with the hankie.
'We're offering you rather a splendid opportunity...
Journalist Sam Craven is recruited for unspecified mission to fly to Iceland to discover what kind of trouble his former lover, the glamorous Solrun, has landed herself in.
Master wordsman Colin Dunne continues his high-tension cold war thriller.
...Then it struck me. If this was my debut in international espionage, I wasn't doing too well. I mean, how would it look on my c.v.? 'On his first operation, Craven actually lost the subject of his surveillance while she was in bed with him.' Roger Moore never seemed to have these problems...
Journalist Sam Craven makes the worst of all stumbling starts in his new career as a spy.
This is the first episode of Colin Dunne’s brilliant cold war novel which, appropriately, is set in Iceland.
Colin, a master wordsmith, wrote features for Britain’s leading newspapers and magazines. An irrepressible sense of humour elevates his taut and exciting novels to the top of the premier writers’ league.
Look out for further episodes of Black Ice on forthcoming Tuesdays.
