Quicksand
By: Bryan Forbes
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780434268269
Subjects: Alec Hillsden (Fictitious character); Fiction; Intelligence officers
Description: Framed for a murder and exiled in Russia as a defector, Alec Hillsden faces a bleak future. An unexpected amnesty offers a pardon and a new identity. He returns to Britain to unravel the 50-year-old mystery of the arrest and death of an art dealer.