georgiewhoissarahdrew's review
4.0
I'm an Anthony Price fan - each book manages to offer a singular sense of place and problem, which takes some doing given that he wrote 19. Terrific characterisation, too, and a first-class historical background into the bargain - what's not to like?
War Game is not Great Price, but it's certainly very good Price. The historical mystery to be solved (the whereabouts of C17th Civil War gold) echoes and is bound up with the modern question of how legally to stop an unpleasant British communist sympathiser from waging war on the Establishment. David Audley is the central character - intelligent, well-informed, devious and maverick - and it's Price's skill to flatter his readers by allowing us to decode situations just a fraction before Audley himself gets there.
War Game is not Great Price, but it's certainly very good Price. The historical mystery to be solved (the whereabouts of C17th Civil War gold) echoes and is bound up with the modern question of how legally to stop an unpleasant British communist sympathiser from waging war on the Establishment. David Audley is the central character - intelligent, well-informed, devious and maverick - and it's Price's skill to flatter his readers by allowing us to decode situations just a fraction before Audley himself gets there.
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