Name Ted Allbeury Role Author | Movies Blue Ice | |
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Died December 4, 2005, Royal Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom Spouse Grazyna Allbeury (m. ?–1999) Nominations Edgar Award for Best Novel Books The Lantern Network, All Our Tomorrows, The Judas factor, The Other Side of Silence, Shadow of shadows Similar Xan Fielding, Hardy Amies, Jack Agazarian | ||
Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury (born Stockport, 24 October 1917 – died Tunbridge Wells, 4 December 2005) was a British author of espionage fiction. He served as an intelligence officer in the Special Operations Executive between 1940 and 1947, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is believed to be the only British secret agent who parachuted into Nazi Germany during the war, and he remained there until the Allied armies arrived. During the Cold War he was captured and tortured when running agents across the border between East and West Germany. After running his own advertising agency, he became the managing director of the seafort-based pirate radio station Radio 390 in 1964, later moving to the ship-based Radio 355 (see under Swinging Radio England for details) until its closure in August 1967.
His first novel, A Choice of Enemies, was published in 1972. Allbeury went on to publish over 40 novels, under his own name as well as Patrick Kelly and Richard Butler.
Media adaptations
Allbeury's 1984 novel No Place to Hide was filmed as Hostage (1992) and starred Sam Neill, Talisa Soto and James Fox.[1] The 1992 film Blue Ice starring Michael Caine is "based" on Allbeury characters.
BBC Radio 4 broadcast adaptions of The Other Side Of Silence (8-part serial, 1982), Pay Any Price (10-part serial, 1983), No Place To Hide (8-part serial, 1984), The Lonely Margins (1988) and Deep Purple (1993).