Thursday, September 05, 2002
THRILLER
AUTHOR Altman, John, 1969-
TITLE A game of spies / John Altman.
IMPRINT New York : Putnam's, 2002.
DESCRIPT 259 p. ; 24 cm.
SUBJECT Intelligence officers -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- Fiction.
Atomic bomb -- Fiction.
Germany -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Spy stories.
ISBN 039914837X.
Before the Cold War, before Phiby, the Germans had the SD {Sicherheitsdienst} (spies spying on the spies of the SS) and Britain had MI6, both groups perfecting the art of the double agent and disinformation. Hagen is an aging SD officer training his protege Frick, who has been unstable since his stint killing Jews in Poland. The British protaganists are Wm. Hobbs, a double agent trained by MI6 and Eva Bernhardt, the sleeper agent he seduced and recruited. This cast of characters uses the fallout from the betrayal of a network of MI6 agents and double agents in
Berlin to set a trap to catch Hobbs and Bernhardt before they escape back to Britain with information pertaining to the German plans for the invasion of France.
A fast moving read, with plots within plots. A ripping good yarn.
AUTHOR Altman, John, 1969-
TITLE A game of spies / John Altman.
IMPRINT New York : Putnam's, 2002.
DESCRIPT 259 p. ; 24 cm.
SUBJECT Intelligence officers -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- Fiction.
Atomic bomb -- Fiction.
Germany -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Spy stories.
ISBN 039914837X.
Before the Cold War, before Phiby, the Germans had the SD {Sicherheitsdienst} (spies spying on the spies of the SS) and Britain had MI6, both groups perfecting the art of the double agent and disinformation. Hagen is an aging SD officer training his protege Frick, who has been unstable since his stint killing Jews in Poland. The British protaganists are Wm. Hobbs, a double agent trained by MI6 and Eva Bernhardt, the sleeper agent he seduced and recruited. This cast of characters uses the fallout from the betrayal of a network of MI6 agents and double agents in
Berlin to set a trap to catch Hobbs and Bernhardt before they escape back to Britain with information pertaining to the German plans for the invasion of France.
A fast moving read, with plots within plots. A ripping good yarn.
