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The seven sleepers

Pages
324
Published
1968
Language
English

Synopsis

Pursuing his misdirected luggage to Geneva, Thomas Preston decides to look up Beatrice Harvel, an acquaintance from the war who is working for the League of Nations. While Thomas is killing time in a café, a stranger thrusts a document in his hand and vanishes. Returning to his hotel, he finds a letter instructing him to deliver the document at a meeting with his "grandmother," and Thomas's decision to keep that appointment thrusts him into the middle of a desperate struggle for the future of Europe.

About the author

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Francis Beeding

A pseudonym for co-authors Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Leslie Palmer. >They were Oxford graduates who met while at the League of Nations in Geneva. Palmer was a drama critic who wrote books on the theatre under the pseudonym "Christopher Haddon". >Saunders served with the Welsh Guards in WWI and worked for the Air Ministry in WWII, writing the famous pamphlet, The Battle of Britain. From 1946 to 1950 he was librarian of the House of Commons. >They also wrote mainstream fiction und...

Characters

Thomas PrestonProtagonist
Beatrice HarvelSupporting
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