| The Limbo Line | |
| Author: | Victor Canning |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Spy thriller |
| Publisher: | Heinemann |
| Release Date: | 1963 |
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The Limbo Line is a 1963 spy thriller novel by the British writer Victor Canning.[1] A former British secret service agent Richard Manston is called out of retirement to tackle a Soviet spy network kidnapping recent defectors to be taken back to Moscow.
The book acts as a prequel to the four Rex Carver novels in that it introduces the Government agency that Carver is later unwillingly drawn into. Manston also appears as a character in some of the Rex Carver books.[2]
In 1968 the novel was turned into a film of the same title directed by Samuel Gallu and starring Craig Stevens and Kate O'Mara.[3] The story was reissued by Pan Books as a tie-in with the film release.