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ALSO BY HELEN MacINNES. Pray for a Brave Heart. Published by Titan Books. A division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd.

ALSO BY HELEN MacINNES. This is a work of fiction.

Johann’s pace was steady and unbroken. He moved over the more difficult ground quickly, without slackening speed, as if he expected Lennox to follow easily. managed it. Either the brief rest at Schönau, or the stimulus of the two Allied officers’ arrival, or the sense of necessity which surrounded him had chased away the fatigue of his muscles. Or perhaps they had never really forgotten the long months of training in the desert. They were obeying him, anyway. He had a feeling of growing confidence.

Read Horizon, by Helen MacInnes online on Bookmate – British soldier Peter Lennox, a POW in an Italian prison camp, is still fighting his own war. An artist in civilian life, his hands bear the scar. An artist in civilian life, his hands bear the sca. British soldier Peter Lennox, a POW in an Italian prison camp, is still fighting his own war.

Helen MacInnes was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels

A suspense novel about a British prisoner of war who breaks free and joins. Helen MacInnes was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels. She graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1928 with a degree in French and German. A librarian, she married Professor Gilbert Highet in 1932 and moved with her husband to New York in 1937 so he could teach classics at Columbia University. She wrote her first novel, Above Suspicion, in 1939. She wrote many bestsell Helen MacInnes was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels.

Several of her books have been adapted into films, such as Above Suspicion (1943), with Joan Crawford, and The Salzburg Connection (1972).

Horizon by Helen MacInnes - book cover, description, publication history. Against the background of World War II and the Nazi terror, Helen MacInnes spins out the gripping tale of a young English painter who risks his life to become a key figure in the underground after a daring escape from an Italian prison camp. Similar books by other authors.

British soldier Peter Lennox, a POW in an Italian prison camp, is still fighting his own war. An artist in civilian life, his hands bear the scars of wounds received during his capture at the fall of Tobruk, and he suspects he will never paint again. The only thing that sustains him is plotting his escapes, no matter how many times he is recaptured. But in September 1943 the Italians surrender to the Allies, and Lennox is free.

Helen Clark MacInnes (October 7, 1907 – September 30, 1985) was a Scottish-American author of espionage novels. She and her husband immigrated to the United States in 1937, when he took an academic position at Columbia University in New York, while retaining her role in the British MI6, for foreign espionage. MacInnes published her first novel during World War II, and her early novels are all based in that setting. Later she wrote more about characters within the context of the Cold War.