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Quiller Meridian
 Adam Hall
Copyright 1993 by Trevor Productions, Inc.
Published in hardcover by William Morrow & Company, Inc., NY, 1993.
Published in paperback by Avon Books, New York, 1994.
(Hardcover)
In Quiller's lates mission, operation Meridian takes him into the espionage trenches of the deadly post-Cold War era. From the chaos of Eastern Europe to the brutality of Siberia, Quiller's far-reaching assignment exposes the real dangers of life even in the New World Order:
ROME: With plans top escort the dark-eyed Valeria Lagorio to a performance of Carmen, Quiller receives a flash signal from London instructing him to fly immediately to Bucharest, where "some kind of hell has got loose" and London needs him to "get it back in its cage."
BUCHAREST: An agent lies in a dark freight yard, headless, victim of a blown rendezvous with the Russian, Zymyanin, who has vanished into the shadows. Quiller is ordered at once to Moscow in the hope of finding him -- alive.
MOSCOW: Sheltered and briefed by an Englishwoman from the ultra-secret Bureau, the British agent receives a signal that Zymyanin has booked out on the Siberian Express, destination Beijing. Quiller's orders are to follow him and make contact if he can. But he knows he could be moving straight into a death trap.
NOVOSIBIRSK: The Red Express lies wrecked in the Siberian snows following an explosion, and Quiller sets out to track three Russian generals ... and Tanya, a beautiful and mysterious Muscovite. Subject of a militia manhunt and dogged by a rogue agent in the field, Quiller survives to avert a disastrous bid for world power by a Russian-Chinese military consortium.
A vivid account of the power game in a Russia torn by civil war, Quiller Meridian deftly mirrors the grim realities in the aftermath of the Cold War.
(Paperback)
Old World Chaos in a New World Order.
A British agent lies murdered and headless in a Bucharest freight yard -- his Russian contact has vanished into the post-Cold War insanity of the former Soviet Union. Now Quiller has a date with destiny aboard the Trans-Siberian express -- following the trail of the missing spy into the perilous core of a sinister conspiracy. Alone in a world turned upside-down, seeking allies among his former enemies, Quiller has placed himself in the rifle-sights of a deadly, power-mad consortium. And unless the rogue operative acts quickly and effectively, an unsteady new order will be smashed into irreparable bits.
 "Almost non-stop action ... razor-sharp characterizations ... keeps readers on the edges of their seats" -- Publishers Weekly
"Quiller is the best thing that ever happened to espionage fiction" -- Buffalo News
"Adam Hall keeps the tension level high and Quiller in hot water"
-- New York Daily News
"Wonderful stuff ... Constant movement and non-stop action ... Quiller Meridian continues the high standards of one of the finest series ever written about spies and spying" -- The Coast Book Review Service
"Startling ... A vivid account of the power game in the espionage trenches of today ... Deftly mirrors the new realities of the post-Cold War struggle for survival"
-- Mystery News
"They don't get any tougher or more intelligent than the Quiller tales"
-- Denver Rocky Mountain News
"The final, ,extended, nonstop action climax [has' the bravura writing that makes Hall distinct from other espionage writers." -- Houston Chronicle
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