McLeave, Hugh

Rogues in the gallery : the modern plague of art thefts by Hugh McLeave( )

4 editions published between 1981 and 2003 in English and held by 1,452 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

ROGUES IN THE GALLERY exposes it all: the cozy insurance ransom racket, the professional gangs of art thieves, the specialists, the connections with the international drug racket and the Mafia. Hugh McLeave has researched the whys and wherefores of the question for years, drawing on resources available to him through agencies such as Interpol, the FBI, the French, and Scotland Yard

A Moment of Truth : the Life of Zola by Hugh McLeave( )

2 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 1,322 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A Moment of Truth is a biographical novel of the life and times of Zola. It is also a cultural fresco of late nineteenth-century France. A Moment of Truth tells of Zola's early struggle against poverty and incomprehension; his blood-brother friendship with Paul Cézanne; his backing of the scorned Impressionists; his monumental creation of twenty Rougon-Macquart novels depicting and dissecting the French Second Empire in raw and often lurid prose. Finally, this book details Zola's courageous combat against the whole French establishment to win justice for an obscure Jewish captain, Alfred Dreyf

The damned die hard : [the colorful, true story of the French Foreign Legion] by Hugh McLeave( Book )

11 editions published between 1973 and 1993 in English and held by 735 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

From the wasteland of the Sahara to the torrid jungles of Indochina, the French Foreign Legion has emblazoned a road of glory and romance like no other army in the world. Hugh McLeave's true-adventure history is a rendering of the dramatic and heroic deeds, the ironies of politics and war, and the personal stories of the men who made the Legion the greatest mercenary unit of all time

A man and his mountain : the life of Paul Cézanne by Hugh McLeave( Book )

11 editions published between 1977 and 1986 in English and held by 554 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A biographical novel

The last Pharaoh : Farouk of Egypt by Hugh McLeave( Book )

9 editions published between 1969 and 1971 in English and held by 388 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

His father named him Farouk, which means "On Who Knows Right from Wrong." At sixteen he was the hope of an independent Egypt, a handsome, godlike young man who, the fellahin believed, would lead them into a time of peace and plenty. Ten years transformed him into an obese faun with a mania for women, gambling, and other people's posessions. Farouk of Egypt became an object of ridicule, the subject of bad jokes, an awful example of the consequences of unlimited power and wealth, a disaster for his people. In this deeply interesting and revealing biography, written by an author who spent two years in search of the person behind the legend, Farouk's obsession with sex is shown as a desperate attempt both to remedy and to conceal his inadequacy. Deprived of childhood companions, the boy became the prey to scheming politicians and syncophantic servants. He was poorly educated, immature, and totally unprepared for the arduous task of ruling his corrupt and feudal country. The more powerless his ineptitude made him, the more autocratic he grew; the more impotent as a lover, the more frenzied his pursuit of women. His patient subjects tolerated his mistakes and excesses until, finally, his private scandals, his divorce from his popular queen, Farida, and the Palestine debacle set the stage for the long-over-due and almost comic revolution that forced him into exile. The author interviewed Farouk's courtiers, his doctors, the men who made the revolution, and the women who knew him intimately. On the Continent he traced and talked with the king's companions in exile. In England he saw such statesmen as Lord Avon and Lord Chandos, as well as ambassadors, Arabists, and the general who planned the wartime coup de palais. Drawing on the recollections of more than a hundred and fifty observers and on unpublished British and Egyptian sources, he has written an oddly touching biography of a complex man. -- from dust jacket

A borderline case by Hugh McLeave( Book )

4 editions published between 1978 and 1979 in English and held by 261 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mysterious and frequent earth tremors are occurring on the Chinese side of the frontier with Pakistan; presumably underground nuclear explosions. A World Health Organization team is investigating an outbreak of a new and deadly kind of flu. British intelligence want to know what is going on!

Double exposure by Hugh McLeave( Book )

2 editions published between 1979 and 1980 in English and held by 228 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The risk takers by Hugh McLeave( Book )

21 editions published between 1962 and 1968 in 4 languages and held by 202 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Death masque by Hugh McLeave( Book )

3 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and held by 201 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Only gentlemen can play by Hugh McLeave( Book )

5 editions published between 1974 and 1976 in English and French and held by 193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

British and Russian double agents brought together by an assignment find themselves falling dangerously in love