The Long Short Cut
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Putting their heads together, they dream up a scheme for success тАУ by smuggling a crooked financier out of England they could stand to make a fortune. In an action-packed race against time, the pair go over every detail of their plan тАУ but is it enough to pull off the heist of a lifetime?
тАШIt is impossible for Andrew Garve to be anything but supremely readableтАЩ Guardian
тАШThe ensuing complications and surprises are highly ingenious, making this Andrew GarveтАЩs best for several booksтАЩ Sunday Times
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Andrew Garve is the pen name of Paul Winterton (1908-2001). He was born in Leicester and educated at the Hulme Grammar School, Manchester and Purley County School, Surrey, after which he took a degree in Economics at London University. He was on the staff of The Economist for four years, and then worked for fourteen years for the London News Chronicle as reporter, leader writer and foreign correspondent. He was assigned to Moscow from 1942 to 1945, where he was also the correspondent of the BBCтАЩs Overseas Service.
After the war he turned to full-time writing of detective and adventure novels and produced more than forty-five books. His work was serialized, televised, broadcast, filmed and translated into some twenty languages. He is noted for his varied and unusual backgrounds тАУ which have included Russia, newspaper offices, the West Indies, ocean sailing, the Australian outback, politics, mountaineering and forestry тАУ and for never repeating a plot.
Andrew Garve was a founder member and first joint secretary of the Crime WritersтАЩ Association.
