Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)
[PDF file]: […] etc. 12. Benton writes thrillers – bad ones. One of his, A Single Monstrous Act (1976), spends most its time describing a revolutionary Trotskyist sect planning a coup in Britain (sic). This veneer of sophistication drops off at the end when the KGB is revealed to have been behind things all the time. This […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] an embarrassing setback with his involvement in what became known as ‘the Hilton Assignment’. In the autumn of the previous year, Colonel Gaddafi had led a bloodless coup against the ruling royal family in Lybia. An essential part of Stirling’s counter-coup plan was the freeing of political prisoners from Tripoli jail – an insalubrious […]