A Forest of Eyes

{{Short description|1950 novel}}

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| author = Victor Canning

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| genre = Thriller

| publisher = Hodder & Stoughton

| release_date = 1950

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A Forest of Eyes is a 1950 spy thriller novel by the British writer Victor Canning.Reilly p.254Murphy p.79 Stylistically it owed a debt to Canning's friend, the writer Eric Ambler.Burton p.81

The novel is set in Yugoslavia then located behind the Iron Curtain before the Tito–Stalin split. Robert Hudson, an engineer in Dubrovnik falls foul of the local police chief Zarko who believes is responsible for the death of a fellow Englishman, likely involved in espionage. Rather reluctantly Hudson finds himself taking over the dead man's mission.