Anthony Price

For other people named Anthony Price, see Anthony Price (disambiguation).

Alan Anthony Price (16 August 1928 – 30 May 2019)^[1][4] was an English author of espionage thrillers.

Anthony Price
Born	John Allan Anthony Price[1] (1928-08-16)16 August 1928 Rickmansworth Hertfordshire, England
Died	30 May 2019(2019-05-30) (aged 90) Blackheath London, England
Occupation	Novelist
Education	The King's School, Canterbury
Alma mater	Merton College, Oxford
Period	1970–1990
Genre	Thriller
Notable awards	Silver Dagger 1971 [2] Gold Dagger 1974 [3]
Spouse	Ann Stone[4]
Children	James, Simon, and Kate[4]

Early life

Price was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England. He attended The King's School, Canterbury and served in the British Army from 1947 to 1949, reaching the rank of captain.^[4] He read history at Merton College, Oxford, from 1949 to 1952, and was awarded an MA in 1956.^[1]

Career

Price was a journalist with the Westminster Press from 1952 to 1988, as well as the editor of the Oxford Times from 1972 to 1988.^[4][5] He was the author of nineteen novels in the Dr David Audley/Colonel Jack Butler series. These books focus on a group of counter-intelligence agents who work for an organization loosely based on the real MI5.

Death

Price died in Blackheath, London, from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on 30 May 2019, at the age of 90.^[5][6][7]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Labyrinth Makers (1970) UK; (1971) US; winner of Silver Dagger Award.
• The Alamut Ambush (1971) UK; (1972) US
• Colonel Butler's Wolf (1972) UK; (1973) US
• October Men (1973) UK; (1974) US
• Other Paths to Glory (1974) UK; (1975) US; winner of Gold Dagger Award, and shortlisted for the Dagger of Daggers, a special award given in 2005 by the Crime Writers' Association(CWA) to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
• Our Man in Camelot (1975) UK; (1976) US
• War Game (1976) UK; (1977) US
• The '44 Vintage (1978) UK & US
• Tomorrow's Ghost (1979) UK & US
• The Hour of the Donkey (1980) UK & US
• Soldier No More (1981) UK; (1981) US
• The Old Vengeful (1982) UK; (1983) US
• Gunner Kelly (1983) UK; (1984) US
• Sion Crossing (1984) UK & US
• Here Be Monsters (1985) UK & US
• For the Good of the State (1986) UK; (1987) US
• A New Kind of War (1987) UK; (1988) US
• A Prospect of Vengeance (1988) UK; (1990) US
• The Memory Trap (1989)

Short stories

• A Green Boy – first published in Winter's Crimes 5 (1973)
• The Boudicca Killing – first published in Winter's Crimes 11 (1979)
• The Berzin Lecture – first published in Winter's Crimes 15 (1983)
• The Chinaman's Garden – first published in John Creasey's Crime Collection 1984 (1984)
• The Road to Suez – first published in The Rigby File (1989), ed. Tim Heald

Non-fiction

• The Eyes of the Fleet: A Popular History of Frigates and Frigate Captains 1793–1815 (1990)

References

1. Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 407.
2. "The Labyrinth Makers". The Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
3. "Other Paths to Glory". The Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
4. Roberts, James (6 June 2019). "OBITUARY: Ex-Oxford Times editor and crime author Anthony Price". Oxford Mail Ltd. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
5. "Anthony Price, much-admired author of the Dr David Audley spy novels – obituary". The Telegraph. 2 June 2019. (registration required)
6. Ripley, Mike (9 June 2019). "Anthony Price obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
7. Genzlinger, Neil (14 June 2019). "Anthony Price, Author of Cold War Spy Thrillers, Dies at 90". The New York Times.

External links

• Anthony Price at IMDb
• Addenda to CRIME FICTION IV: Anthony Price, Otto Penzler & others.
• Review of the Audley series by Jo Walton
• Anthony Price interview Part I
• Anthony Price interview Part II