The Brotherhood of the Rose by David Morrell

Eliot is based on a real CIA counter-espionage master, James Jesus Angleton. It’s filled with all kinds of authentic CIA history and tradecraft. Two orphans, Romulus and Remus, are raised by CIA handler John. In a way, this is a novel about an evil stepfather. Brotherhood of the Rose: With Peter Strauss, Robert Mitchum, Connie Sellecca, David Morse. The arguments between him and my mother were so fierce that I slept in fear under my bed. When my mother remarried, it was to a man who didn’t like children. The emotions in The Brotherhood of the Rose come out my experiences in an orphanage when I was three, after my father died. Eventually, to protect himself, he turns against them. He makes the boys love him as a substitute father, then trains them to be his personal intelligence operatives when they are adults. Two boys in an orphanage (Saul, a Jew Chris, an Irish Catholic) are befriended by an elderly man, who unknown to them works for the CIA.

This was my first big international thriller. “Tough, ingeniously plotted, and always gripping, this thriller will stir the blood of even the most jaundiced reader.” Sounds too good to be true? Then just read David Morrell’s The Brotherhood of the Rose.” “Imagine a suspense thriller as riveting as The Thirty-Nine Steps or Rogue Male, featuring heroes the equal of Adam Hall’s Quiller, and crackling with more action that The Road Warrior, Dirty Harry, and The Seven Samurai combined. Spanning the globe and full of heart-stopping action, The Brotherhood of the Rose is an astonishing novel of fierce loyalty and violent betrayal, of murders planned and coolly executed, of revenge bitterly, urgently desired. Now he is trying desperately to have them killed. They were orphans, Chris and Saul-raised in a Philadelphia orphanage, bonded by friendship, and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot. Buy the Book: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Scrib, Smashwords, Kobo, iTunes, Audible

The Brotherhood of the Rose by David Morrell