Ted Allbeury

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Ted Allbeury (born October 24, 1917 in Stockport , Greater Manchester , England , † December 4, 2005 in Tunbridge Wells , Kent ; full name Theodore Edward Le Boutillier Allbeury ) was a British writer of espionage novels .

Life

After the early death of his father, his mother moved him and his sister to Essex and later to Birmingham , where he grew up and went to school. Then he found a job as a worker in an iron foundry, where he also worked as a draftsman in the office. At the beginning of World War II , he applied for the Army and was accepted by the Special Operations Executive of the Secret Service. Thanks to his talent for languages, he also came to many foreign assignments. Allbeury rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and after the war was among other things responsible for interrogating German prisoners of war before retiring from service in 1947.

After this time he returned to the foundry for some time, but then founded his own marketing and advertising agency JW Southcombe. In the early 1960s he retired from it for three years and tried his hand at breeding poultry and sheepdogs. But after that was unsatisfactory, he wanted to return to the advertising industry. Then he was asked by a friend for advice on marketing a pirate radio station on an old fort off the coast. It got so far that Allbeury got involved himself and from 1965 successfully built up the radio station Radio 390. After differences of opinion with the co-owners, he separated from the station in 1967 and briefly built a new station until the changed legal situation forced him to give up later that year.

After an unsuccessful attempt to win a parliamentary seat for the Liberals , he got back into the marketing industry. In addition, he also discovered the writing activity and the processing of his intelligence experience for himself. He began writing spy novels in the early 1970s. He became one of the most successful British authors of the genre in the 1970s and 1980s, authoring more than 40 books in 20 years. Two of his books were also published under the pseudonyms Patrick Kelly and Richard Butler . Allbeury places less value on technical espionage gimmicks in his works, but develops lively character studies of the actors, whereby in the end the good side typically has the upper hand. His stories are also known for his authentic descriptions of the locations, which he built into the plot with the help of pictures and reports, without having been there himself. Reclam's Crime Encyclopedia noted that he had treated the spy fraud "not with the same mastery" as John le Carré . In addition, one lamented the typification of his image of women: “Allbeury's image of women is negative; almost all women are good-looking, busty and always ready for anything. "

Theodore Allbeury died in 2005 at the age of 88.

Works (selection)

Tad Anders spy novels
  • Operation Snowball. Spy thriller. ("Snowball", 1974). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-548-01923-4 .
  • The Omega Minus Process. Spy thriller. ("Palomino Blonde", also: "Omega-minus", 1975). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-548-01970-6 .
  • The Judas Factor. Agent novel. ("The Judas Factor", 1984). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-548-10538-6 .
Max Ferns thriller. (originally under the pseudonym Richard Butler )
  • Who shoots the nightingale. ("Where All the Girls Are Sweeter", also "Dangerous Arrivals", 1975). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-548-10609-9 .
  • Risk on the Riviera. ("Italian Assets", also: "Deadly Departures", 1976). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-548-22605-1 .
Other spy novels and political thrillers
  • Agents are loyal enemies. Spy thriller. ("A Choice of Enemies", 1972). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-548-01884-X .
  • Company special collection. Political thriller. ("The Special Collection", also: "The Networks", 1975). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-548-10492-4 .
  • A useful German. Political thriller. ("The Only Good German", also: "Mission Berlin", 1976). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-548-10439-8 .
  • Quadrille with fatal outcome. Spy thriller. ("Moscow Quadrille", also: "Special Forces", 1976). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-548-01909-9 .
  • Phantom brain for the president. Spy thriller. ("The Man with the President's Mind", 1977). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-548-01947-1 .
  • The past never ends. Spy thriller. ("The Lantern Network", 1978). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-548-10003-1 .
  • The alpha list. Spy thriller. ("The Alpha List", 1979). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-548-10053-8 .
  • The seeds of fear. Political thriller. ("Consequence of Fear", also: "Smokescreen", 1779). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-548-10083-X .
  • In the hands of the Kremlin. Political thriller. ("The Twentieth Day of January", also: "Cold Tactics", 1980). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-548-10067-8 .
  • The avenger. Political thriller. ("The Reaper", also: "The Stalking Angel", 1980). Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. 1986, ISBN 3-548-10333-2 .
  • Code word Cromwell. Political thriller. ("Codeword Cromwell", 1981). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1991 (original under the pseudonym Patrick Kelly ), ISBN 3-548-40118-X .
  • On the edge of loneliness. Political thriller. ("The Lonely Margins", 1981). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1985 (original under the pseudonym Patrick Kelly ), ISBN 3-548-10303-0 .
  • The other side of the silence. Spy novel. ("The Other Side of Silence", 1981). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-548-10150-X .
  • Page change. Political thriller. ("The Secret Whispers", 1981). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-548-22447-4 .
  • And tomorrow the future. Political thriller. ("All Our Tomorrows", 1982). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-548-20803-7 .
  • Shadow of the spies. Spy novel. ("Shadow of Shadows", 1982). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-548-10216-6 .
  • Every spy has its price. Political thriller. ("Pay Any Price", 1983). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-548-10287-5 .
  • The girl from Addis. Political thriller. ("The Girl from Addis", 1984). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-548-10321-9 .
  • Rennie. Spy novel. ("No Place to Hide", also: "Hostage", 1984). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-548-10356-1 .
  • Children of security. Political thriller. ("Children of Tender Years", 1985). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-548-10376-6 .
  • Seeds of betrayal. Spy thriller. ("The Seeds of Treason", 1986). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-548-20872-X .
  • Pawn sacrifice. Spy thriller. ("The Crossing", also: "Berlin Exchange", 1986). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-548-10663-3 .
  • Mirrored. Political thriller. ("A Wilderness of Mirrors", 1988). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-548-22669-8 .
  • Secret code Deep Purple. Spy thriller. ("Deep Purple", 1989). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-548-24375-4 .
  • Time without shadow. ("A Time Without Shadows", also: "Rules of the Game", 1990). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-550-06742-9 .
  • Dirty work. ("The Dangerous Edge", 1991). Schweizer Verlagshaus, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-7263-6688-1 .
  • A real American. Novel. ("Show Me a Hero", 1992). Schweizer Verlagshaus, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-7263-6690-3 .
  • Frontier workers. ("The Line-Crosser", 1993). Edition Oesch, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-85833-251-8 .
More novels
  • Who chooses love. Novel. ("The Choice", 1986). Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-548-22351-6 .
only published in English

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.booksellerworld.com/ted-allbeury-biography.htm
  2. ↑ Klaus-Peter Walter (Ed.): Reclams Krimi-Lexikon . Authors and works. Philipp Reclam Jun., Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-15-010509-9 , p. 20.
  3. ^ Ted Allbeury ( Memento of October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Allbeury, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allbeury, Theodore Edward Le Boutillier (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author of espionage novels
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockport , Greater Manchester , England
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 2005
Place of death Tunbridge Wells , Kent , England