WISE, Arthur

WISE, Arthur
(1923-)
   UK writer and drama consultant, most of whose works were thrillers; he wrote also as John McArthur. Most of his sf was borderline, using genre elements to heighten the suspense. The best known of these tales was probably The Day the Queen Flew to Scotland for the Grouse Shooting (1968), about the abduction of the monarch. A second NEAR FUTURE,political novel was Who Killed Enoch Powell? (1970), where the assassination of that politician sets a complex thriller in motion, escalating to racial violence at Wimbledon. The displacement into sf of all his work is minimal.
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   Other works: The Little Fishes (1961); The Death's-Head (1962); Leatherjacket (1970).As John McArthur: Days in the Hay (1960); How Now Brown Cow (1962).

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