Reviews for Drink to Yesterday
Review - Drink to Yesterday
The style is rather mechanical and dry, but as it went on, I found it gripping and realistic.
Reviewed by Roger on 2025-08-08 16:15:05
Drink to Yesterdayby Manning Coles | |
| Category: |
"Fiction - Mystery" |
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| Pages: | 270 |
| Year of Publication: | 1940 |
| Date Added: | 02/20/2021 |
| Date Read: | 08/08/2025 |
| Notes: | First in a series about British spy Tommy Hambledon, but the character plays a fairly small role in this one. It's mostly about a student named Michael Kingston who is fluent in German and is recruited to go behind German lines during WWI. The two men have a series of adventures—killing a scientist thought to have developed a way to spread cholera in England, destroying the German dirigible fleet, killing a German spy-master. Michael, on leave, marries and English girl named Diane, mostly because he's lonely. Back in German, he meets Marie and loves her dearly, but she is killed shortly after the war. Michael returns to England, breaks with Diane, and opens a garage. Six years later, Marie's brother shows up and kills him for what he did to his sister and to Germany. Hambledon is supposed drowned while escaping to England, and the book ends with him presumably dead. |
| My Rating: | 7 |