Description |
xiv, 433 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Told as it was: Recruitment of the archtraitor; from Panther's Feast / Robert Asprey -- Defection of Kuznetov; from Topaz / Leon Uris -- Happy, the Joe; from Call It Treason / George Locke Howe -- Stockings of Major Andre; from The Secret Road / Bruce Lancaster -- Cloak and Bomb: Conspiracy up to the ears; from Azef / Roman Goul -- Conversation on the train; from Birds Fall Down / Rebecca West -- Mr. Vladimir and Mr. Verloc; from Secret Agent / Joseph Conrad -- Mask and intrigue -- General of the order; from Vicomte de Bragelonne / Alexandre Dumas -- Entrapping a lady; from Scarlet Pimpernel / Baroness Orczy -- "Dangerous German Spy:" Bruce-Partington plans; from Later adventures of Sherlock Holmes / A. Conan Doyle -- Intruders; from Riddle of the Sands / Erskine Childers -- Guarding the Zeppelins; from Drink to Yesterday / Manning Coles -- Defector who didn't make it; from Dark Duet / Peter Cheyney -- Mysterious East: Message to Umballa; from Kim / Rudyard Kipling -- I. A.; from Mountolive / Lawrence Durrell -- Far from home; from Spylight / James Leasor -- Interlude between the wars: Assistant producer; from Nabakov's Dozen / Vladamir Nabokov -- Betrayal; from Darkness at Noon / Arthur Koestler -- Belgrade, 1926; from Coffin for Dimitrios / Eric Ambler -- Spit and image: Problems of identity; from Great Impersonation / E. Phillips Oppenheim -- Confusion of Celts; from Assignment in Brittany / Helen MacInnes -- Deception: Trojan horse; from Aeneid / Virgil -- Belated promotion; from Operation Heartbreak / Duff Cooper -- Curious Experience; from American Claimant / Samuel L. Clemens -- Brainwashing: Little piece of Hungary: from Ipcress file / Len Deighton -- Trigger; from Manchurian candidate / Richard Condon -- Some losers: Taylor's run; from Looking Glass War / John Le Carre' -- End of James; from From Russia with love / Ian Fleming -- Giulia Lazzari; from Ashenden / W. Somerset Maugham -- Gimmickry: All's well; from On Hazardous Duty / David St. John -- Spoofs: Recruitment of Walter Blankensop; from Water on the Brain / Sir Compton MacKenzie -- Inventive Mr. Wormold; from Our Man in Havana / Graham Greene. |
Subject |
Spy stories.
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ISBN |
0890097020 |
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0890097178 |
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