THRILLER writer Max Telligan returns from a business trip to Munich to discover he is dead. Murdered!

The traumatic revelation is enough to leave me all a dither; estranged wife Harriet (Margaret Hall) is bewildered, efficient secretary Liz (Jenny Hampson) is confused.

Enter a sinister secret agent, a mysterious American intruder, a smooth MI5 man, a sycophantic golf pro and a tart with heart. Mix in the odd killing, the occasional fight and a plethora of furtive sidelong glances and you have a plot which thickens like home-made soup!

Francis Durbridge's 'A Touch of Danger', this week's taut tale of spies and lies at St Joseph's Players, grips the audience like a vice, the tension mounting with every menacing minute in an atmosphere which crackles like electricity.

June Lee, in her debut as director, keeps it tight as a puzzling story finally unfolds amid a series of deceptions and disclosures.

David Farrell, David Grime, Stephen Woodcock, Nicola Reynolds, Nick Bennett and Corina Mather make up a fine cast for a compulsive thriller.

Thriller writer Max (David Hodgkinson) would have been thrilled to write it!

The play ends a four-night run in St Joseph's Hall, Leigh, tomorrow evening.

Tickets (£3.50) from Boardman's, Bradshawgate, Leigh - or you can pay at the door.

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