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Thriller writers I read 5/24/2009 9:27:33 AM
Duncan Kyle wrote in the traditional British thriller style. His books still make good reads.
Duncan Kyle was the pen name of John Franklin Broxholme who was born June 11, 1930 in Bradford, England, and died June 2001. This English thriller writer published fifteen novels from 1971 to1993. Kyle's books are built around tough, resourceful individuals who unexpectedly become involved in danger and intrigue, often in an exotic setting. Living in British Columbia, I find it hard to believe that Vancouver is exotic, but in Raft of Swords, he places a lot of the action in the rugged inlets of the west coast.
In the style of Desmond Bagley and Alistair MacLean, he is stronger on plot and setting than on characterization. Like these two writers, Kyle also has a book set in the land of ice and snow. A Cage of Ice, involves a London physician who accompanies a hand-picked team of adventurers on a snowmobile journey across the Arctic to rescue a defecting Soviet scientist. These make good reads for the dog days of summer.
Two of his books, The King's Commissar and The Dancing Men, are considered classics of historical fiction and historical detective story genres.
Novels (as Duncan Kyle) A Cage of Ice (1970) Flight Into Fear (1972) The Suvarov Adventure (1973) paperback title "A Raft of Swords" Terror's Cradle (1974) The Semonov Impulse (1975) originally published using pseudonym "James Meldrum" In Deep (1976) paperback title "Whiteout!" Black Camelot (1978) Green River High (1979) Stalking Point (1981) The King's Commissar (1983) The Dancing Men (1985) The Honey Ant (1988)
