Adam Hall
Bio: Adam Hall is the pseudonym of the incredibly prolific English novelist Elleston Trevor (born Trevor Dudley Smith), under which he has written more than 15 Quiller novels. Born in 1920, he was apprenticed as a race-car driver when he joined the Royal Air Force, where he began writing. Under the name of T. Dudley-Smith, his first novel Over the Wall (1943) was published when he was still in the service. Three more T. Dudley-Smith titles followed, while in 1946 he created the name Elleston Trevor, which he used as a pseudonym and later legally adopted as his name.
Adam Hall's The Quiller Memorandum, published in the U.K. as The Berlin Memorandum, appeared in 1965, introducing the elusive character of Quiller, a man with no real name, a secret agent and a dark figure who does not really know who is employers are. The Quiller novels are written in the first person, reflecting the unique danger and disillusionment of Cold War espionage. Some 16 novels have appeared chronicling Quiller's adventures.
As Elleston Trevor, the author wrote The Flight of the Phoenix in 1964, which subsequently became a successful film the following year. (The Quiller Memorandum is dedicated to that film's director, Robert Aldrich.) He has also written children's books. The writer lived in France (1958-73) before moving the United States. His other pseudonyms include Trevor Burgess, Caesar Sith, Roger Fitzalan, Leslie Stone, Mansell Black and Warwick Scott.
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