The Silent Hostage
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 First edition (UK) | |
| Author | Sarah Gainham |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Eyre & Spottiswoode (UK) E.P. Dutton (US) |
Publication date | 1960 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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The Silent Hostage is a 1960 spy thriller novel by the British writer Sarah Gainham.[1] Before writing her most celebrated work Night Falls on the City, Gainham produced several thrillers set in Continental Europe where she had lived since 1947.[2] The novel takes place on the Adriatic Coast of Yugoslavia not long after the Second World War.
