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The Limbo Line (novel)

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The Limbo Line
First edition
AuthorVictor Canning
LanguageEnglish
GenreSpy thriller
PublisherHeinemann
Publication date
1963
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Limbo Line is a 1963 spy thriller novel by the British writer Victor Canning.[1] A former British secret service agent Richard Manston is called out of retirement to tackle a Soviet spy network kidnapping recent defectors to be taken back to Moscow.

The book acts as a prequel to the four Rex Carver novels in that it introduces the Government agency that Carver is later unwillingly drawn into. Manston also appears as a character in some of the Rex Carver books.[2]

Film adaptation

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In 1968 the novel was turned into a film of the same title directed by Samuel Gallu and starring Craig Stevens and Kate O'Mara.[3] The story was reissued by Pan Books as a tie-in with the film release.

References

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Bibliography

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  • Burton, Alan. Looking-Glass Wars: Spies on British Screens since 1960. Vernon Press, 2018.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.