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He studied medicine, the family profession at Sydney University.
("Oil - all the oil in the world; on top of the bloody Him...)
"Oil - all the oil in the world; on top of the bloody Himalayas!" - Start a rumour about oil being found in the most unlikely spot and they'll bite at it... even if the rumour stems from the ravings of a delirious survivor of an ill-fated wartime surveying expedition to the foothills of Tibet. Years later, finding the missing papers of that expedition becomes a high priority for spies, mercenaries, oil companies and governments. Former army intelligence officer, unorthodox insurance assessor and freelance investigator Idwal Rees, an experienced Far Eastern hand operating out of Bombay, is drawn in to the search which soon becomes a race across India and Pakistan attempting to stay one step ahead of the opposition all the way to the pass beyond Kashmir, where the invading Chinese army - and Rees' personal nemesis - are lying in wait. A decade or more before he himself became one of Britain's leading thriller writers, Anthony Price wrote: "You only get one or two thrillers a year - if you are lucky - as good as Berkely Mather's The Pass Beyond Kashmir" and he was far from alone in his praise of Berkely Mather. American mystery superstar Erle Stanley Gardner said of him: "This man has a remarkable gift for thrills and suspense" whilst Ian Fleming put him in "the small category of those adventure writers whose works I, for one, will in future buy sight unseen" and insisted on Mather's appointment as one of the scriptwriters on the film Dr No.
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A book in the Stafford Family series. From dust jacket flap: The Hour of the Dog--twilight by the ancient Chinese--epitomizes Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation from Christmas 1941 until August 1945. For the British and Chinese populations, herded into military or civilian camps, it was a time of danger, suffering, and humiliation. Some, however, made their escape through the enemy lines into the hinterland, and though many died en route, a few survived to reach Chungking, headquarters of Chiang Kai-Shek in China rent by civil war and Japanese invasion. Among the survivors were Vincent Stafford, descendant of the princely house of Stafford and McMurtrie, and Shivka, the beautiful White Russian who lived on borrowed time and worked for Allied Intelligence..This is a riveting, intriguing and fascinating in its details novel of the China of Chiang and Mao. A tense atmospheric thriller and a tale of war, love, and espionage that will not soon be forgotten...
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A novel of international intrigue in which our hero, British agent Feltham seeks master criminals involved with the Symbionese Liberation Army, IRA and Palestine Liberation Front in the Suez Canal Zone and Cyprus.
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He studied medicine, the family profession at Sydney University.
He also wrote for radio, television and the movies. Shortly before World War I, Mather"s family emigrated to Australia, where he received his education. Finding himself in England without prospects at the height of the Great Depression, he enlisted in the Royal Horse Artillery, but failed to gain a commission.
He therefore applied to join the Indian Army, in which he rose through the ranks, becoming a sergeant at the outbreak of World World War II in 1939.
He served in the Iraq campaign under Slim, and ended the war as an acting lieutenant-colonel. After India gained independence in 1947, he rejoined the British Army, serving in the Royal Artillery until he retired in 1959.
Mather"s first novel,, was a minor best-seller, and his second,, which received glowing reviews from Ian Fleming and Erle Stanley Gardner, did even better. Ernest Hemingway owned copies of both these novels.
Mather"s espionage thrillers can be read separately, but are linked to each other by recurring characters, in particular the sardonic and resourceful British agent Idwal Rees, who appears in The Pass Beyond Kashmir, The Terminators and Snowline.
The author"s military experience and years spent abroad give his work richness and depth. His last three novels were an ambitious trilogy that followed the fortunes of the Stafford family in the Near and Far East from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Two of Mather"s early books stand somewhat apart from the rest in that they are spin-offs from his work in other media.
Geth Straker (1962) started out as a radio serial, hence the tag on the front cover: "Further daring exploits from the log of radio"s trouble hunting mariner".
The book contains four stories. is a novelisation of the 1965 film of the same name, for which he had written the original story. Mather also provided uncredited rewrites of the screenplays for From Russia with Love and Goldfinger.
James Bond film producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman purchased the film rights to The Pass Beyond Kashmir for Columbia Pictures in 1963. Sean Connery and Honor Blackman were to star.
Production was to have begun in late 1964 in Britain and on location in the Far East.
(A novel of international intrigue in which our hero, Brit...)
("Oil - all the oil in the world; on top of the bloody Him...)
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(A book in the Stafford Family series. From dust jacket fl...)
(London published Fiction)
(London published Fiction)
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(Book by Mather, Berkely)
(Book by Mather, Berkely)
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