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The Ninth Directive Paperback – February 25, 2010

by Adam Hall (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
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Quiller, known only by his codename, is the British government's #1 intelligence agent. Darkly exotic Bangkok is center stage for a master assassin's plan. The target: a visitor so important he is only called "The Person". As the clock ticks away in the final hours, Quiller becomes the bait to stop the killer.
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  1. Book 2 of 17
    Quiller
  2. Print length
    172 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Ostara Publishing
  5. Publication date
    February 25, 2010
  6. Dimensions
    5.51 x 0.37 x 8.5 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1906288372
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1906288372
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ostara Publishing (February 25, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 172 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1906288372
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1906288372
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 0.37 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 167 ratings

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4.2 out of 5 stars
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David Howard
5.0 out of 5 stars ... knew this when I purchased it) and it feels good in my hands and looks good
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2016
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It's a slightly used book printed in 1968 (I knew this when I purchased it) and it feels good in my hands and looks good. I have read "Quiller Memorandum" and "Quiller Salamander." The "9th Directive: Quiller" is another winner. It's great. Quiller is the best spy in the business.
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James
4.0 out of 5 stars Good condition
Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2024
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Good condition. Shipped quickly.

If you want to read about that may or may not have saved Louis Mountbatten from assassination in Thailand during a 1969 official visit before the real IRA really got him in 1979, this is your book.
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Jan Denno
5.0 out of 5 stars Could not put it down
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2014
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I bought this mystery for a transcontinental flight. I could not stop reading it on the plane. I came home and finished the book. It was a cliff hanger.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Elleston Trevor) does a great job of putting the reader into Quiller's mind
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2015
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Thoroughly enjoyable little spy novel; Adam Hall (okay, Elleston Trevor) does a great job of putting the reader into Quiller's mind.
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Kenneth Chadwick
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Enough Action
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2022
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Too much set-up of the story and spy practices at the front-end and not enough action until the middle of the book. Almost put this one down but I did not give up on the book.
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Jerome Boyle
4.0 out of 5 stars Not too late to start
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2010
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If you have never read the Qiller books from Adam Hall, now is the time to start. Qiller is a niche, an acquired taste, a flawed man with a strong self-destructive streak. However, I think the strongest part of a Quiller novel is the writing. Up front, it is sometimes flawed. Sometimes clunky. But, Hall (a nom de plume') uses techniques that are unique. He sometimes runs on and on with no punctuation, driving the reader at a blinding speed. He will intentionally leave you confused. He frequently just stops. Picking up the story at a later point. Really interesting attempts to explore form. Violent. You get the feeling that the sex was tacked on as an after thought, to "punch up the story line". (It was the '70's you know) Quiller is a spy without the gadgets. This isn't deep literature. More of a tilt-a-whirl than a quiet garden. Always fun.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2015
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Book in great shape. Excellent plot
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Michael Levin
4.0 out of 5 stars Quilled as minimalist art
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2015
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If any more accessories or embellishment was removed from Hall's prose we would be left with bleak nouns and verbs. Quilter is the epitome of the cold clear headed loyal professional with just that necessary nano drop of human weakness to make him more attractive. Great stories for those who can stand the style.
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Kbvijay
1.0 out of 5 stars Quiller fails to thrill
Reviewed in India on October 15, 2021
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One keeps waiting for the plot to unravel. There doesn’t seem to be one.
If one wants a detailed map of Bangkok, follow his movements. That is the only positive. You will know everything about Bangkok.
Till the last line , one hopes something will happen. Nothing really happens and this could have been a short story.
The characters are disconnected.
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Jaco Hop
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on September 8, 2017
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Quiler is an overlooked but fantastic series
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Jeremy Duns
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best spy thrillers of all time
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2010
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I love this thriller. It is taut, tense and brilliantly written. Predating Frederick Forsyth's The Day of The Jackal by five years, it takes you into the mind of a British agent given the task of assassinating an assassin. Bangkok leaps off the page and the narrator, Quiller, is one of the finest creations in espionage fiction: a real alleycat of a spook, but also a deeply sensitive man. All the cliches, perhaps, but Hall (aka Elleston Trevor) make them real. Quiller is a living breathing human being, and you're there with him every step of the way, sweating with him, frightened for him. This entire series of novels (there are 19) is amazing, but this and The Tango Briefing are probably my favourites. Criminally unknown today - do check them out. If you like the Bourne films or the recent Bond films with Daniel Craig, this might be right up your street. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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A C Lorimer
4.0 out of 5 stars wonderfully dated
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2013
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Rather expensive on Kindle, but still a great read. If reading Chandler takes you back to 40's Los Angeles then this takes you back to the raging paranoia of the 60's with Vietnam lurking in the background. Quiller remains a brilliant anti-hero of his time
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Bent A
5.0 out of 5 stars Intense high voltage thriller
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 22, 2013
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Have just reread this intense super-agent thriller written in the mid-1960th. I enjoyed it as much as I did when I first read it sometimes in the 1970th. The inner world of the super spy Quiller is fascinatingly imagined: both his psychology and his knowledge as a spy - or operative in the field - is superbly laid out by the author, Adam Hall.

I really enjoy reading books like this. Tense and taut, this is a high voltage thrill is on a level only a few authors are able to achieve. Somewhat different in style (naturally), I find it is as good as the best Robert Ludlum and David Morrell novels.

Super-spy aficionados: Enjoy!
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