Message from Málaga

By: Helen MacInnes

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

“That delay in the delivery of the message from Málaga could have been absolutely disastrous. As it was, there had been irreparable loss: an agent dead.”

Under the Mediterranean sun, a drama begins in a café in Málaga. For Ian Ferrier, an employee of the United States Space Agency on holiday to visit his old friend Jeff Reid, it means the startling discovery that Reid is not just a wine exporter, but rather engaged in smuggling communist defectors to the West. Events take a turn for the worse when Ferrier, a stranger to the deadly world of espionage, must take sole charge of a high-ranking KGB agent.

Alone in an frighteningly alien landscape, he can afford no mistakes when choosing whom to trust …

©2013 Helen MacInnes (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Always a Good Read

I go back to MacInnes over and over again. I like her characters and I like her plots rooted in her own experience with intelligence work and those who do the work.

Really good!

I love all of this author’s stories and characters, and this was a favorite. The narrator was exceptionally enjoyable.

Still relevant

I read all of MacInnes’ books in the 70’s and thoroughly enjoyed them at the time. I was very pleased to see her stories published again on Audible and have listened to them all. This is one of my favorites and thought how very relevant to our time were several aspects of the plot.