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Joseph Hone

The Oxford Gambit MP3 CD – 30 August 2016

by Joseph Hone (Author), Jeremy Clyde (Narrator)

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Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1531815839
ISBN-13 : 978-1531815837
Dimensions : 16.51 x 1.59 x 13.97 cm

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 November 2016

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Excellent book and excellent service.

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A longing for simplicity

Reviewed in the United States on 20 January 2019

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“We set up borders and checkpoints for ourselves every day, small trials of strength, confirmations of nerve or integrity in a hundred small measures taken.” ‒ from THE OXFORD GAMBIT

“We need to tease one another more than we know, and love may come to depend on it.” ‒ from THE OXFORD GAMBIT

“I thought then how common a longing for simplicity was; and how, since it was so rare a thing, we were usually in the end forced to invent it.” ‒ from THE OXFORD GAMBIT

“… you could come to need someone, perhaps for a lifetime, while doing no more than look at them for an instant over a restaurant table.” ‒ from THE OXFORD GAMBIT

THE OXFORD GAMBIT is the third of four books in the series by Joseph Hone featuring his British SIS sometime agent, Peter Marlow. As I’ve stressed in my reviews of the previous two, these aren’t action espionage thrillers by any mind-altered stretch of the imagination possible. They are character and plot driven story lines to an extreme even beyond those by John le Carré. They are an acquired taste, I think.

Here, Marlow, no longer on the payroll of the SIS, is asked by a veteran officer of that organization and the Prime Minister to investigate the sudden and complete vanishing from his home of Lindsay Phillips, the long time and venerable Head of Section of “Nine”, or what might be called in the genre the “Balkans desk.” Peter is thought the perfect man for the task because of his previous professional connection with the SIS and his personal connection with the Phillips family during his coming-of-age years in Scotland. He had looked upon Lindsay as a father image and had fallen in love with Rachel, Lindsay’s daughter by his second wife Madeleine.

Then, another SIS officer warns Marlow to stay away from the whole affair. Phillips must not be found.

Not employed by the SIS, Peter decides to take a personal middle-ground, to help Rachel and Madeleine to find their father and husband respectively and reveal a simple explanation for his disappearance in the process and the SIS be damned. And Marlow still carries a torch for Rachel.

As usual, Hone via Marlow is something of an amateur philosopher providing snippets of petty wisdom that I can quote at the beginning of the review.

More than the previous two books in the tetralogy, THE OXFORD GAMBIT is even more character and plot driven if such is possible. And, while simplicity is sought in the answer to the riddle, unintended consequences ripple large. Approaching the end of the novel, I thought it had been carried on far too long, but then the irony of the conclusion was so profound that it justified all that had come before. Thus, four stars after I’d been tempted to award only three. And yes, at some point I shall take up the last installment, THE VALLEY OF THE FOX.

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Hone is no Le Carre

Reviewed in the United States on 26 October 2016

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No suspense but plenty of purple prose. "We arrived in the evening, running down the long slopes of the Salzburg motorway into a huge flat valley that lay beneath us like a plum-colored sea, with a pale, blue velvet haze all over it, pricked everywhere with light." I don't know if this was ever turned into a movie, but it reads as if it were designed for that purpose.

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