Alan Anthony Price (16 August 1928 – 30 May 2019) was an author of espionage thrillers. Price was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England. He attended

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and served in the

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from 1947 to 1949, reaching the rank of captain. He read history at Merton College, Oxford, from 1949 to 1952, and was awarded an MA in 1956. Price was a journalist with the Westminster Press from 1952 to 1988, as well as the editor of the ''

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'' from 1972 to 1988. 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

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. Price died in Blackheath, London from

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on 30 May 2019, at the age of 90.

Bibliography

Novels

*''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

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Award, and shortlisted for the

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, 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

* ''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

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

References

External links

*
Addenda to CRIME FICTION IV: Anthony Price, Otto Penzler & others.Review of the ''Audley'' series
by

Jo Walton Jo Walton (born 1964) is a Welsh and Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She is best known for the fantasy novel ''Among Others'', which won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012, and '' Tooth and Claw'', a Victorian era novel ...

Anthony Price interview Part I
1928 births 2019 deaths People from Hertfordshire British thriller writers British spy fiction writers People educated at The King's School, Canterbury Alumni of Merton College, Oxford Members of the Detection Club Royal Army Educational Corps officers Military personnel from Hertfordshire 20th-century British Army personnel Respiratory disease deaths in England Deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease {{UK-novelist-stub