William Haggard

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William Haggard (born Croydon) was the pseudonym of Richard Henry Michael Clayton, the son of the Rev. Henry James Clayton and Mabel Sarah Clayton. He was an English writer of fictional spy thrillers set in the 1960s through the 1980s, or, as the writer H. R. F. Keating called them, "action novels of international power." Like C. P. Snow, he was a quintessentially British Establishment figure who had been a civil servant in India, and his books vigorously put forth his perhaps idiosyncratic points of view. The principal character in most of his novels is the urbane Colonel Charles Russell of the fictional Security Executive, (clearly based on the actual MI5 or Security Service), who moves easily and gracefully along Snow's Corridors of Power in Whitehall. During the years of the fictional spy mania initially begun by the James Bond stories, Haggard was considered by most critics to be at the very top of the field.

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The vendettists
Representative edition published 1993
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Meritocrats
Representative edition published 1987
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The diplomatist
Representative edition published 1987
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The Telemann touch
Representative edition published 1986
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The Martello tower
Representative edition published 1986
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The Arena
Representative edition published 1984
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The scorpion's tail
Representative edition published 1984
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Mischief Makers (Walker British Mystery)
Representative edition published 1982
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Money Man
Representative edition published 1981
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The median line
Representative edition published 1981
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Visa to limbo
Representative edition published 1979
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The poison people
Representative edition published 1979
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The Kinsmen (Walker British Mystery)
Representative edition published 1974
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The Notch in the Knife (Walker British Mystery)
Representative edition published 1973
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The old masters
Representative edition published 1973
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Little Rug Book
Representative edition published 1972
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The protectors
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The bitter harvest
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The hardliners
Representative edition published 1970
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The doubtful disciple
Representative edition published 1969
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The conspirators
Representative edition published 1968
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A cool day for killing
Representative edition published 1968
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Venetian blind
Representative edition published 1967
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The powder barrel
Representative edition published 1967
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