Ted Allbeury

Career

He served as an intelligence officer in the Special Operations Executive between 1940 and 1947, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is believed to be the only British secret agent who parachuted into Nazi Germany during the war, and he remained there until the Allied armies arrived. During the Cold War he was captured and tortured when running agents across the border between East and West Germany.

After running his own advertising agency, he became the managing director of the seafort-based pirate radio station Radio 390 in 1964, later moving to the ship-based Radio 355 (see under Swinging Radio England for details) until its closure in August 1967.

His first novel, A Choice of Enemies, was published in 1972. Allbeury went on to publish over 40 novels, under his own name as well as Patrick Kelly and Richard Butler.

Allbeury"s 1984 novel Number Place to Hide was filmed as Hostage (1992) and starred Sam Neill, Talisa Soto and James Fox. The 1992 film Blue Ice starring Michael Caine is "based" on Allbeury characters.

British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 broadcast adaptions of The Other Side Of Silence (8-part serial, 1982), Pay Any Price (10-part serial, 1983), Number Place To Hide (8-part serial, 1984), The Lonely Margins (1988) and Deep Purple (1993).

Works

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  • Show Me a Hero (Paragon Large Print)

    (Based on a true story, the exciting tale of Andrei Aarons...)

  • A Wilderness of Mirrors

    ("A Wilderness of Mirrors" weaves together the worlds of t...)

  • Seeds of Treason

    (Published to coincide with the publication of "A Wilderne...)

  • All Our Tomorrows

    (What if Great Britain, weakened by the excesses of the we...)

  • The Lantern Network

    (Commander Bailey's brief from Special Branch seems simple...)

  • Deep Purple

    (Promoted in the army to the Intelligence Corps, and later...)

  • The Line-crosser

    (A dispute with his masters sees Foster leaving SIS headqu...)

  • The alpha list

    (Content is clean and bright with previous owners signatur...)

  • Girl From Addis

    (An espionage thriller originally published in 1984 and un...)

  • A Choice of Enemies

    (Ted Bailey thought his days as an Intelligence Operative ...)

  • Children of Tender Years

    (Like so much intelligence work, the assignment seemed rou...)

  • The Other Side of Silence

    (Book by Allbeury, Ted)

  • As Time Goes By

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  • Readers Digest Condensed Books - hungry as the Sea, the gold of Troy, the Scofield Diagnosis, the Lantern Network
  • Aid and Comfort
  • Girl From Addis by Ted Allbeury (1985-01-24)
  • The other side of silence / Ted Allbeury
  • No Place to Hide ; The Judas Factor ; Children of Tender Years ; The Seeds of Treason ; The Crossing
  • The Line-crosser by Ted Allbeury (1993-08-05)
  • Pay Any Price
  • Codeword Cromwell
  • Never Look Back by Ted Allbeury (2000-11-01)
  • No Place to Hide ; The Judas Factor ; Children of Tender Years ; The Seeds of Treason ; The Crossing by Ted Allbeury (1988-10-27)
  • All Our Tomorrows
  • The Lantern Network by Ted Allbeury (1990-01-01)