![]() ![]() This one paints a vivid portrait of the south of France just after WW2, a place where the British are alienated by the very quality of the food when they come from the place where rationing is still in force. During his life, he wrote more than 70 books which sold over 50 million copies. I have loved Dennis Wheatleys black magic novels since I was a teenager and have recently enjoyed re-reading them on Kindle. To the Devil - a Daughter Dennis Wheatley 3.67 avg rating 929 ratings by Goodreads Hardcover ISBN 10: 0749306734 ISBN 13: 9780749306731 Publisher: Arrow, 1991 View all copies of this ISBN edition: Synopsis About this title Beneath the azure sky of the French Riviera, Christina Mordant looks and behaves like any other attractive girl. He wrote numerous papers for the War Office, including suggestions for dealing with a German invasion of Britain. His literary talents gained him employment with planning staffs for the War Office. During the Second World War, Wheatley was a member of the London Controlling Section, which secretly coordinated strategic military deception and cover plans. Soon after his expulsion Wheatley became a British Merchant Navy officer cadet on the training ship HMS Worcester. ![]() ![]() He admitted to little aptitude for schooling, and was expelled from Dulwich College. His Gregory Sallust series was one of the main inspirations for Ian Fleming's James Bond stories.Born in South London, he was the eldest of three children of an upper-middle-class family, the owners of Wheatley & Son of Mayfair, a wine business. Dennis Yates Wheatley (1897-1977) was an English author whose prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling writers from the 1930s through the 1960s. ![]()
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