by Desmond Bagley, Ralph Mowat · OXFORD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194792608
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«The Enemy» is the suspense novel by Desmond Bagley, adapted by Ralph Mowat, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (128 pages, in English).
On a summer afternoon in Marlow, a young woman is attacked with acid by a stranger pretending his car had broken down. Then her father, the scientist George Ashton, disappears, and her sister Penny discovers that her fiancé Malcolm is a government agent. Espionage, family secrets, and the question of who the real enemy is.
Part of the Oxford Bookworms Library series, level 6: 2500 vocabulary words, adaptation by Ralph Mowat, and CEFR level B2/C1.
For upper-intermediate and advanced English learners and for adults looking for a graded suspense reading.
Desmond Bagley was an English journalist and novelist known mainly for a series of bestselling thrillers. He and fellow British writers such as Hammond Innes and Alistair MacLean set conventions for the genre: a tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary hero pitted against villains determined to sow destruction and chaos for their own ends.
