Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Agent Michael Reynolds' mission is to persuade a top scientist who has defected to Russia to come back to the UK. The scientist is living in Budapest and this is a thriller culminating in a chase with the scientist in tow ending up on the roof of a Trans-Hungarian express train. Alastair Maclean was born in Scotland in 1922 and died in 1987. This is another fast-moving spy thriller, though not one of his finest. It is a little bogged down by too much political analysis and not enough action.
C.C. (U.K., 2017)