Quiller
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Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by English novelist Elleston Trevor and featured in a series of Cold War thrillers written under the pseudonym "Adam Hall".
The series focuses on a solitary, highly capable spy (named for Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch) who works (usually alone) for a government bureau that "doesn't exist" and narrates his own adventures. Quiller occupies a literary middle ground between James Bond and John le Carré's characters. He is a highly skilled driver, pilot, diver, linguist and martial artist. He does not carry a firearm, reasoning that if he is caught, anything he has on him can be explained except a gun. His resistance to interogation is exceptional and he has managed to keep the "suffix-nine" designation that indicates that he is "reliable under torture".
Quiller's narration of the tradecraft skills he routinely employs are one of the defining elements of the novels.
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[edit] The novels
- The Berlin Memorandum (1965)
- The 9th Directive (1966)
- The Striker Portfolio (1968)
- The Warsaw Document (1971)
- The Tango Briefing (1973)
- The Mandarin Cypher (1975)
- The Kobra Manifesto (1976)
- The Sinkiang Executive (1978)
- The Scorpion Signal (1979)
- The Peking Target (1981)
- Quiller/Northlight (1985)
- Quiller's Run (1988)
- Quiller KGB (1989)
- Quiller Barracuda (1990)
- Quiller Bamboo (1991)
- Quiller Solitaire (1992)
- Quiller Meridian (1993)
- Quiller Salamander (1994)
- Quiller Balalaika (1996)
[edit] Short story
- Last Rites (Espionage Magazine, April 1986)
[edit] Adaptations
- The Quiller Memorandum (1966) - The first book in the series adapted under its US title and starring George Segal and Alec Guinness.
- Quiller (1975) - British Television series featuring Michael Jayston.
