The French Letter
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Comment from royowen
An amiable meeting with Sir Robert the local high commissioner who knows all about Charles' and Helen's mission to Pakistan and this incredible cloak and dagger story you've very successfully created Tony. This is excellent writing my friend, well done, good job, blessings, Roy
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An amiable meeting with Sir Robert the local high commissioner who knows all about Charles' and Helen's mission to Pakistan and this incredible cloak and dagger story you've very successfully created Tony. This is excellent writing my friend, well done, good job, blessings, Roy
Comment Written 12-Oct-2019
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Thanks, Roy, for your continued support and kind words. All good wishes, Tony.
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Good job
Comment from Bill Pinder
I enjoyed this well written chapter in your book about the spy business. I liked how you wove humor into the interactions between the characters. you do a good job building suspense.
Bill
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I enjoyed this well written chapter in your book about the spy business. I liked how you wove humor into the interactions between the characters. you do a good job building suspense.
Bill
Comment Written 12-Oct-2019
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Thanks, Bill, for your continued support and kind words. All good wishes, Tony.
Comment from estory
Much of the entangled relationships between Arnoux and Mdmsll Durand and Helen and The Lion, the French drug traffickers, and Rasheed, the separatist/terrorist, become untangled in this chapter, and it all came out in this dialogue with Sir Robert and Charles. Very James Bond, I think it comes off. It's a little bit of a break in the action, but its good to get a clearer picture of who is on whose side, and where this is going at last. You set it up for a bang up coming explosion of action. estory
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Much of the entangled relationships between Arnoux and Mdmsll Durand and Helen and The Lion, the French drug traffickers, and Rasheed, the separatist/terrorist, become untangled in this chapter, and it all came out in this dialogue with Sir Robert and Charles. Very James Bond, I think it comes off. It's a little bit of a break in the action, but its good to get a clearer picture of who is on whose side, and where this is going at last. You set it up for a bang up coming explosion of action. estory
Comment Written 12-Oct-2019
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Thanks, estory. Just trying to gather together a few loose ends before the big bang!
Comment from juliaSjames
Tony you deserve six stars for this terrific effort to untangle the strings of the plot and then weave then into a new design.
I think when Charles and Helen meet they will mull over the situation and the reader will have another chance to understand.
The DHC is written true to life. Affable but ruthless.
A few points:
For the sake of accuracy chapter 88 should be headed "The Deputy High Commissioner." I believe the term Assistant HC is used in UN contexts and means someone with a specific assignation.
In the write itself it would be difficult for Sir Robert to slap Charles on the back if they're both sitting down.
And a typo:
"The words 'interrogated' and 'persuaded' add up to an unpleasant euphemism." I think this should be "added up" in this particular context.
Happy to hear from you again.
Blessings Julia
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2019
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Tony you deserve six stars for this terrific effort to untangle the strings of the plot and then weave then into a new design.
I think when Charles and Helen meet they will mull over the situation and the reader will have another chance to understand.
The DHC is written true to life. Affable but ruthless.
A few points:
For the sake of accuracy chapter 88 should be headed "The Deputy High Commissioner." I believe the term Assistant HC is used in UN contexts and means someone with a specific assignation.
In the write itself it would be difficult for Sir Robert to slap Charles on the back if they're both sitting down.
And a typo:
"The words 'interrogated' and 'persuaded' add up to an unpleasant euphemism." I think this should be "added up" in this particular context.
Happy to hear from you again.
Blessings Julia
Comment Written 12-Oct-2019
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2019
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Thanks, Julia. I appreciate your detailed review and six stars. You?ve made several good points, for which I?m extremely grateful. All good wishes, Tony
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Always a pleasure to read your work, Tony.
JJ
Comment from Mistydawn
This is an intriguing chapter, very well-written. Your characters their dialogue seem realistic. I look forward to finding out what the duo is up to and where the story goes from here, Nicely done.
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This is an intriguing chapter, very well-written. Your characters their dialogue seem realistic. I look forward to finding out what the duo is up to and where the story goes from here, Nicely done.
Comment Written 12-Oct-2019
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Thanks, Mistydawn, for your continued support and kind words. All good wishes, Tony.
Comment from robyn corum
Ton
I'm not a big fan of the guys in the offices (or comfy living rooms) who stay safe and secure while they make the plans and send other folks to do the dirty work. It always seems a bit... unfair -- to say the least.
Nice chapter. Thanks!
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Ton
I'm not a big fan of the guys in the offices (or comfy living rooms) who stay safe and secure while they make the plans and send other folks to do the dirty work. It always seems a bit... unfair -- to say the least.
Nice chapter. Thanks!
Comment Written 12-Oct-2019
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2019
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Thanks, Robyn , for your continued support and kind words. All good wishes, Tony.
Comment from Alcreator Litt Dear
Explosive, creative and very innovative but analytical approach with sensual expression and behavioural activation for appreciation of dimensions of living and trail for achievement recognition, good taletelling, shinning and realistic dialogues and characters; thematic maturation is orderly; well said, well done.
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Explosive, creative and very innovative but analytical approach with sensual expression and behavioural activation for appreciation of dimensions of living and trail for achievement recognition, good taletelling, shinning and realistic dialogues and characters; thematic maturation is orderly; well said, well done.
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Comment Written 12-Oct-2019
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Many thanks for your review. Appreciated, as always. Best wishes, Tony
Comment from Pantygynt
I enjoyed this episode though it is some time since i read the previous one. It is one of the problems with serialisation, that one can get lost occasionally, as I am here, with this Ash character, and he doesn't seem to appear on your list of Characters. Is that an omission, or am I missing something?
'...problem is a historical one.' It occurred to me that a man of Sir Robert's erudition might be the sort of person to say 'an historical one', probably droppin' the H into the bargain, what! Just a thought on the characterisation.
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reply by the author on 13-Oct-2019
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I enjoyed this episode though it is some time since i read the previous one. It is one of the problems with serialisation, that one can get lost occasionally, as I am here, with this Ash character, and he doesn't seem to appear on your list of Characters. Is that an omission, or am I missing something?
'...problem is a historical one.' It occurred to me that a man of Sir Robert's erudition might be the sort of person to say 'an historical one', probably droppin' the H into the bargain, what! Just a thought on the characterisation.
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Comment Written 12-Oct-2019
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Thanks, Jim. Yes, I should add Ash to the list of characters. Good point, too, about the unaspirated aitch. he might be one of the few left to champion this grammatical nicety.
Comment from rspoet
Hello Tony,
Another excellent chapter in the novel of endless intrigues.
Yes, love that name, Sir Robert, even if he does use very old jokes:
"abstinence makes the heart grow fonder."
It seems everybody is a double, triple agent, spy,
hopeful there are no tinkers or tailors.
I think Les Stups includes anyone stupid enough to continue on into The Lion's den, but then, that's what novels are. If common sense applied, there would be no spy novels.
This is a good one.
I'd like to know what Ash and Helen are up to, also.
Well done.
Sir Robert
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2019
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Hello Tony,
Another excellent chapter in the novel of endless intrigues.
Yes, love that name, Sir Robert, even if he does use very old jokes:
"abstinence makes the heart grow fonder."
It seems everybody is a double, triple agent, spy,
hopeful there are no tinkers or tailors.
I think Les Stups includes anyone stupid enough to continue on into The Lion's den, but then, that's what novels are. If common sense applied, there would be no spy novels.
This is a good one.
I'd like to know what Ash and Helen are up to, also.
Well done.
Sir Robert
Comment Written 12-Oct-2019
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2019
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Thanks, Robert. Naturally, your name sprung to mind when I was searching about for a suitably distinguished moniker for the grand old man. As always, I appreciate your comments and the accolade of a sixth star. All good wishes, Tony
p.s. I've just bought a Kindle copy of your "Tales of a Scottish Wood: The Storyteller Series" and have it at my bedside to dip into over the next few weeks. Much looking forward to reading the new tales that didn't get posted on FS, and rereading the ones that did.