The Pulse of Danger

{{Short description|Book by Jon Cleary}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2018}} {{infobox book |  | name = The Pulse of Danger | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:ThePulseOfDanger.jpg | caption = First UK edition | author = Jon Cleary | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Australia | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Collins (UK)<br>William Morrow (US) | release_date = 1966 | english_release_date = | media_type = | pages = | isbn = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''The Pulse of Danger''''' is a 1966 novel written by Australian author Jon Cleary. It is set in Bhutan with the background of the Sino-Indian War. A small group of Western botanists have just finished an expedition and are returning to India where they encounter an Indian officer who has a captured Chinese general. They are pursued by Chinese forces.<ref>Chis Wordsworth, 'Airy battlements' ''The Guardian (1959-2003) [London (UK)]'' 04 Mar 1966: 9</ref>

Cleary visited the region as part of his research.<ref>{{cite news|title=The little bloke who reached the top|newspaper=The Age|date=12 April 1975|page=19|first=Pamela|last=Ruskin}}</ref>

Film rights were bought by Sydney Box but no movie was made.<ref name="Vagg">[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=vagg%20cleary;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Jon Cleary Interviewed by Stephen Vagg: Oral History] at National Film and Sound Archive</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106950009 |title=Books into films |newspaper=The Canberra Times |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=3 December 1966 |access-date=18 April 2020 |page=10 |via=Trove }}</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pulse of Danger}} Category:1966 Australian novels Category:Novels set in Bhutan Category:Novels set in 1962 Category:Sino-Indian War in fiction Category:War novels Category:William Collins, Sons books Category:William Morrow and Company books Category:Novels by Jon Cleary