Helen MacInnes was the queen of spy and mystery novelists. Her career spans the same time frame as her friend and fellow champion of western civilization, Dame Agatha Cristie. To read Coulter, Paretsky, Kellerman, Roberts, Mary Higgins Clark, et. al., and not to have experienced MacInnes, is like being a fan of Neil Simon, never experiencing Shakespeare! She passed in 1985, never seeing the end of the Soviet terror that she railed against.
