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Anthony Price
BornJohn Allan Anthony Price[1]
(1928-08-16)16 August 1928
Rickmansworth Hertfordshire, England
Died30 May 2019(2019-05-30) (aged 90)
Blackheath London, England
OccupationNovelist
EducationThe King's School, Canterbury
Alma materMerton College, Oxford
Period1970–1990
GenreThriller
Notable awards
SpouseAnn Stone[4]
ChildrenJames, Simon, and Kate[4]

Alan Anthony Price (16 August 1928 – 30 May 2019)[1][4] was an English author of espionage thrillers.

Early life

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Price was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England. He attended The King's School, Canterbury and served in the British Army from 1947 to 1949, reaching the rank of captain.[4] He read history at Merton College, Oxford, from 1949 to 1952, and was awarded an MA in 1956.[1]

Career

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Price was a journalist with the Westminster Press from 1952 to 1988, as well as the editor of the Oxford Times from 1972 to 1988.[4][5] He was the author of nineteen novels in the Dr David Audley/Colonel Jack Butler series. These books focus on a group of counter-intelligence agents who work for an organization loosely based on the real MI5.

Death

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Price died in Blackheath, London, from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on 30 May 2019, at the age of 90.[5][6][7]

Bibliography

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Novels

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  • The Labyrinth Makers (1970) UK; (1971) US; winner of Silver Dagger Award.
  • The Alamut Ambush (1971) UK; (1972) US
  • Colonel Butler's Wolf (1972) UK; (1973) US
  • October Men (1973) UK; (1974) US
  • Other Paths to Glory (1974) UK; (1975) US; winner of Gold Dagger Award, and shortlisted for the Dagger of Daggers, a special award given in 2005 by the Crime Writers' Association(CWA) to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
  • Our Man in Camelot (1975) UK; (1976) US
  • War Game (1976) UK; (1977) US
  • The '44 Vintage (1978) UK & US
  • Tomorrow's Ghost (1979) UK & US
  • The Hour of the Donkey (1980) UK & US
  • Soldier No More (1981) UK; (1981) US
  • The Old Vengeful (1982) UK; (1983) US
  • Gunner Kelly (1983) UK; (1984) US
  • Sion Crossing (1984) UK & US
  • Here Be Monsters (1985) UK & US
  • For the Good of the State (1986) UK; (1987) US
  • A New Kind of War (1987) UK; (1988) US
  • A Prospect of Vengeance (1988) UK; (1990) US
  • The Memory Trap (1989)

Short stories

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  • A Green Boy – first published in Winter's Crimes 5 (1973)
  • The Boudicca Killing – first published in Winter's Crimes 11 (1979)
  • The Berzin Lecture – first published in Winter's Crimes 15 (1983)
  • The Chinaman's Garden – first published in John Creasey's Crime Collection 1984 (1984)
  • The Road to Suez – first published in The Rigby File (1989), ed. Tim Heald

Non-fiction

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  • The Eyes of the Fleet: A Popular History of Frigates and Frigate Captains 1793–1815 (1990)

References

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  1. ^ a b c Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 407.
  2. ^ "The Labyrinth Makers". The Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Other Paths to Glory". The Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d e Roberts, James (6 June 2019). "OBITUARY: Ex-Oxford Times editor and crime author Anthony Price". Oxford Mail Ltd. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Anthony Price, much-admired author of the Dr David Audley spy novels – obituary". The Telegraph. 2 June 2019. (registration required)
  6. ^ Ripley, Mike (9 June 2019). "Anthony Price obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  7. ^ Genzlinger, Neil (14 June 2019). "Anthony Price, Author of Cold War Spy Thrillers, Dies at 90". The New York Times.
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