Quintain
Subtitle: a novel
By: by R. E. Harrington.
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Published: 1977
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Genres: Suspense
First sentence: Brother Felix stood at window naked, and looked out upon the spring-quickened landscape.
Description: Alexander Quintain skulked through the corridors of Continental Investments, Inc., tormented by the distinct impression he was being watched. Unlike most paranoics, he was being watched. A legendary practitioner of torture and execution, Felix, the director of the secret organization, The Group, determines that Quintain knows too much to live.
  The climax of this compelling story occurs in a confrontation between these two that is gripping in its detail and harrowing in its suspense.