The Quiller Memorandum

The classic tale of espionage that started it all! In this first book in the QUILLER series, undercover agent Quiller is asked to take the place of a fellow spy who has recently been murdered in Berlin, in identifying the headquarters of an underground but powerful Nazi organization, Phönix, twenty years after World War II. But when Quiller gets too close, he becomes the hunted and must outsmart Phönix against all odds to both uncover their secrets and stay alive. 


Winner of the 1966 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Novel, 1966 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for Best International Crime Novel.


Adapted into a major motion picture in 1966, starring George Segal, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter.


“One of the small handful of truly distinguished spy novels of the 1960’s.”

- Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review


Praise for the QUILLER Series:


"For fans and students of the genre, it's a must … pure adrenaline!"

- The Chicago Times


"Hall has been turning out Quiller novels, each one a winner, for years. Over the years, the character has grown in eccentricity, depth and appeal." 

- The Chicago Tribune


"Hall has created a new form: the spy thriller that is all action and yet cerebral, a writing feat few can match … Hall delivers!"

- The Boston Globe

 

"Quiller is one of suspense literature's great secret agents!" 

- The Houston Chronicle


"Thrilling."

- The Los Angeles Times

 

"They don't get any tougher or more intelligent than the Quiller tales." 

- The Rocky Mountain News

 

"Quiller is by now a primary reflex." 

- Kirkus Reviews

 

"Tense, intelligent, harsh, surprising..." 

- The New York Times


(Quiller is) "the greatest survival expert among contemporary secret agents." 

- The New York Times


"Stunningly well done, tense, elliptical, without a misplaced word."

- The New York Republic


"Espionage at its best!"

- The London Times


"Breathless entertainment!"

- The Associated Press


"White-hot intensity."

- The Washington Post


"… one gets the feeling that this is the way real espionage is conducted."

- San Francisco Chronicle


Praise for ADAM HALL:


"Tension in a novel is difficult to maintain at a pitch that actually creates a physical impact on the reader. A few of the best writers can do it, and among them is Adam Hall."

- London Times Literary Supplement


"Nobody writes espionage better than Adam Hall… Tense and suspenseful, at every moment.”

- The New York Times


"When it comes to espionage fiction, Adam Hall has no peer."

- Eric Van Lustbader, author of "The Ninja"


“The unchallenged king of the spy story."

- Buffalo News


"Adam Hall is an exemplary writer and one of the few in this genre to do his job with a poet's skill and fierce pride in the language."

- The Hong Kong Times


"Adam Hall writes the most exciting, original and authentic espionage novels to be found on bookshelves today."  

- The Banner


"Few writers handle action as excitingly as Hall..." 

- The Houston Chronicle


"A Master. One never doubts the reality of every page he writes."

- The New York Times


“Hall is indeed a master of the contemporary espionage novel.”

- The Denver Post