EGLETON, Clive (FREDERICK)
- EGLETON, Clive (FREDERICK)
(1927-)
UK soldier and writer who began to publish novels with the Garnett sequence - A Piece of Resistance (1970), Last Post for a Partisan (1971) and The Judas Mandate (1972) - about UK post-nuclear- HOLOCAUST resistance to the Russians who occupy the islands; in the end, a government-in-exile is formed and the invaders, drained by a China war, retreat. State Visit (1976) is about the assassination of the Queen in order to prevent German reunification. CE specializes in spy thrillers.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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