Anthony Hyde

Anthony Hyde (born 1946) is a Canadian author of spy novels, most notably The Red Fox and Formosa Straits.

Background Hyde was born in Ottawa, in 1946, and is the son of the artist and film-maker, Laurence Hyde.

During the 1960s, Hyde played a leadership role in the Canadian New Left, especially with The Student Union for Peace Action, and his writing has always had a strong political element. China Lake – Knopf (1992) - "Though its final unravelings become quite thin, and whether Hyde's endless deductive style really holds is questionable, this is a winner." "China Lake is a highly assured performance--intricately plotted, psychologically astute and written with often startling power" and "But above all it is Hyde's evocation of the unforgiving desert, especially its forbiddingly dark nights, that lifts the novel far above conventional suspense fiction." Formosa Straits – Penguin Canada (1996) - "Hyde (China Lake, 1992; The Red Fox, 1985) returns in top form with an intricately woven tale of love, murder, and family set in the new Asia" and "Intelligent, literate, and unsentimental." "Hyde can tell a ripping tale" and "The final pages serve Nick a fate so poetically just that it rings false, but that's the only significant flaw in this otherwise unusually intelligent and finely wrought thriller." Promises, Promises: Breaking Faith in Canadian Politics – Viking (1997) Double Helix – Viking (1999) A Private House – Penguin (2007)