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Ted Allbeury

This page lists novels by Ted Allbeury.

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Novels published using the pen names Richard Butler and Patrick Kelly are included in the list.

 

Ted Allbeury: Novels and short story collections

A Choice of Enemies

Ted Allbeury

Peter Davies

1972

"Ted Bailey thought his days as an Intelligence Operative were long gone. He certainly wasn't expecting to be blackmailed back into action, especially not by his own side. But then Bailey is the only person left who ever encountered Berger, the KGB's most ruthless master-spy. Berger is running a major operation on US soil and both the CIA and SIS are desperate to track him down. So Bailey returns to the arena of international espionage and finds that little has changed. The spy game is just the same, even after twenty-five years. There's the same brutality. The same cold fear. The same violence and death. And the same choice of enemies."
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Snowball

Ted Allbeury

Peter Davies

1974

"A long buried and shocking secret has been uncovered. In 1940, President Roosevelt and Canada's Mackenzie King secretly agreed to abandon the Allies and make peace with Hitler if the Nazis successfully invaded Britain. Decades later, Soviet agents are ready to use this information to shatter the NATO alliance and use the ensuing geopolitical chaos to strengthen their position in Europe. Only one man stands in their way. Tadeusz Anders - half Polish, half English and totally professional - plunges into a series of cruel and violent manoeuvers to combat the cold-blooded operatives of the KGB."
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Palomino Blonde

Ted Allbeury

Peter Davies

1975

Also published as Omega-Minus.

"What does a man do when he discovers a process like Omega Minus? He wishes he hadn't. Scientist James Hallet has the Intelligence forces of all the world's major powers on his back and they're not too particular about how they get their information. They wouldn't, for instance, baulk at the kidnap and torture of Hallet's beautiful blonde mistress. Not if it would give them Omega Minus."
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Where All the Girls Are Sweeter

Richard Butler

Peter Davies

1975

Subsequently published as by Ted Allbeury. Also published as Dangerous Arrivals by Ted Allbeury.

"Boat dealer Max Farne spends his days relaxing, lounging around the pier at Santa Margherita and escaping the hot Italian sun in cool Italian bars. But following the sudden arrival of a beautiful woman, the disappearance of a rich man and the appearance of a soft-treading, armed stranger, who Max is forced to kill, it seems that the violence has only just begun."
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The Special Collection

Ted Allbeury

Peter Davies

1975

Also published as The Networks.

"Germany, 1945. British agent Stephen Felinski is parachuted into Hitler's fast-collapsing empire with orders to reorganize a group of Soviet agents abandoned by Moscow. Thirty years later, a top British politician defects to the Russians and Felinski is called out of retirement to help - because of a friendship formed among the ruins of Nazi Germany. The link is The Special Collection, a daring and meticulously planned Soviet attempt to bring social and industrial chaos to Britain. It has already been set in motion and only Stephen Felinski can stop it."
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The Only Good German

Ted Allbeury

Peter Davies

1976

Also published in the US as Mission Berlin.

"David Mills had long since left behind his life as an Intelligence Officer, or so he thought. As the British and American Intelligence agencies struggle to combat the mounting fascist threat, Mills is pulled back into the murky world of International espionage by a figure from his past."
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Moscow Quadrille

Ted Allbeury

Peter Davies

1976

Also published as Special Forces.

"A Russian actor on the KGB payroll... A middle aged wife with a fatal sense of guilt... A seductive Slav beauty, fuel for an ageing diplomat's sexual fantasies... A severely compromised British ambassador to Moscow who will return to Britain as the Prime Minister's personal advisor... Their shadowy dance has begun to a tune of betrayal, disillusionment and death, and a nation's fate hangs in the balance."
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Italian Assets

Richard Butler

Peter Davies

1976

Subsequently published as by Ted Allbeury. Also published as Deadly Departures by Ted Allbeury.

"It was just a routine call at Santa Margherita for Max Farne. A meeting with his agent to see if there were any boats for him to buy or sell. And then came the invitation he couldn't refuse. Abducted by and blackmailed into selling his boat by a smooth Italian gangster, Max is drawn into a wave of crime sweeping Italy, taking him back to the mountains to protect the beautiful daughter of a wartime friend. The stakes are high and Max has everything to lose unless his tough background could help him survive."
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The Man with the President's Mind

Ted Allbeury

Peter Davies

1977

"In a building just like The White House, deep inside Russia, a man is provided with top-secret CIA briefing documents, American newspapers, radio and television programmes. His training will continue until he can think exactly like the President of the United States of America, and know how he will react in a crisis. A crisis the Kremlin has already set in motion."
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The Lantern Network

Ted Allbeury

Peter Davies

1978

"Routine surveillance, nothing special' - Commander Bailey's brief from Special Branch seems simple enough. But it leads to a sudden, bloody suicide. Piece-by-piece, Baily uncovers the history of a courageous special agent aiding the French Resistance during WWII. But the agent's loyalties are fatally divided. Thirty years on, in a quiet flat in south London, the final, tragic act of the drama takes place."
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The Alpha List

Ted Allbeury

Granada

1979

"Dave Marsh and Charlie Kelly grew up together on the backstreets of Birmingham. Now Charlie is a Labour MP and Dave an Intelligence agent. When Charlie comes under suspicion of passing secrets to the Russians, Dave is given the task of investigating his old friend. He seems to be able to prove his case soon enough, but as Charlie points out, he doesn't know half of what is really going on. He doesn't know about the Alpha List."
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Consequence of Fear

Ted Allbeury

Granada

1979

Also possibly published as Smokescreen.

"Despite Hiroshima and Nagasaki nobody knows what present-day nuclear explosions will do. And if you know, then by god you've got a massive advantage. In 1956 a major nuclear explosion shook the southern Urals, killing hundreds, possibly thousands of Russian citizens and devestating an enormous industrial area. It could have been an accident. But was it? One man holds the final piece to a jigsaw of terrifying proportions."
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The Reaper

Ted Allbeury

Granada

1980

Also published in the US as The Stalking Angel.

"Anna Woltman is a woman out for revenge. Revenge for the sudden, senseless killing of her husband. Revenge for the atrocities suffered by millions of innocent people during the Second World War. One by one, across Europe and the United States, she stalks men who think they have long since escaped the consequences of their actions. One by one she makes them pay for their crimes with their lives, but soon the secret Nazi organisation known as ODESSA starts to fight back."
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The Twentieth Day of January

Ted Allbeury

Granada

1980

Also published as Cold Tactics.

"A spookily prescient espionage thriller from one of the masters of the genre. What if the Soviet Union gained control over the US Presidency? SIS agent James Mackay fears that this may already be happening when he realises the newly elected president's press secretary is a former communist radical with links to the KGB. When the witnesses who support his suspicions are systematically eliminated, MacKay must race against time to prove that the President-Elect is not his own man before Inauguration Day and avoid a national catastrophe."
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Codeword Cromwell

Patrick Kelly

Granada

1980?

Subsequently published as by Ted Allbeury.

"Even at the height of Nazi Germany's power there was one invasion Hitler will not risk - the invasion of England by his crack stormtroopers. But the sworn followers of Max von Bayer are a desperate group of seven men and women who are prepared to defy the Führer's ultimate authority and face almost certain death. Driven by personal passions and inspired by their fervent loyalty to the Nazi creed, they land on the shores of England and take the war into their own hands. Their aim is to show that a German invasion is possible, that Britain could be attacked and forced to send out Codeword Cromwell."
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The Lonely Margins

Patrick Kelly

Granada

1981

"To live in the shadowland of espionage, where the only certainties are death and deceit, is to live on the lonely margins. The French Resistance brought James Harmer and Jane Frazer together. The Gestapo broke them apart. But it was something else that shattered their love and left them haunted by a sense of betrayal and a thirst for revenge."
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The Other Side of Silence

Ted Allbeury

Granada

1981

"After years behind the Iron Curtain, Britain's most notorious traitor wants to return to the homeland he betrayed as part of the Cambridge Five spy ring. John Powell is assigned the task of finding out why. Is it an old man's whim, or a carefully planned KGB operation? To find out Powell must journey into the labyrinth of a man's legendary past, sifting through every rumour, every plot, every shadowy alliance, until the journey leads him into the most dangerous recess of them all, the heart and mind and motivation of the man himself - Kim Philby."
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The Secret Whispers

Ted Allbeury

Granada

1981

"Richter's wartime mission in England was dangerous, but he survived. After the war he returned to Germany to start a new life, safe from every threat except one, the cruellest of all; coincidence. And when Richter got into trouble, there was only one man with a chance of getting him out. A man he had not seen in years and whom he never expected to see again."
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Shadow of Shadows

Ted Allbeury

Granada

1982

"The debriefing of Russian defector Colonel Petrov is nearly over, when suddenly he dries up. SIS agent James Lawler has to find out why, but Petrov will only say he is scared of being killed - like British double-agent George Blake. But Blake had escaped to Russia, alive. Or had he? To uncover the deadly truth, Lawler has to delve into the murky, intricate past of a traitor and learn the explosive truth behind what could lead a man to betray his country."
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All Our Tomorrows

Ted Allbeury

Granada

1982

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Pay Any Price

Ted Allbeury

Granada

1983

"The Kennedy killings meant trouble - trouble for the Mafia, trouble for the Cubans, and trouble for the CIA. When Grabowski hides the CIA's hypnosis experts away in a remote Northumbrian safe house, there is only one catch: the British. SIS have a problem just across the Irish Sea that needs to be dealt with, and they are determined to use their American guest's 'expertise' deveoped during Project MKULtra for their own purposes."
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The Girl From Addis

Ted Allbeury

Granada

1984

"Johnny Grant was a British Intelligence agent in Ethiopia in 1941. The operation went south his cover was blown and he was given 48 hours to leave the country. Over forty years later he returns as a professional photographer working on a magazine feature or so he believes. Behind the exotic sets and beautiful models British and Russian Intelligence forces battle for control of the coastline one of the gateways to Africa. When Johnny falls in love with Aliki Yassou girlfriend of one of the top Russians his past begins to catch up with him."
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The Judas Factor

Ted Allbeury

New English Library

1984

"Even in the murky world of espionage there are rules. Tad Anders has broken them all. Too violent and too unpredictable, he let his feelings affect his ability to do his duty. The spymasters looked at his file, talked discreetly amongst themselves and quietly pensioned him off as too dangerous for regular use. But now the other side is breaking the rules: KGB-organised assassinations, the ruthless hunting down of defectors, kidnappings - in Vienna, Paris, Cologne and now London. A revenge operation is called for. An East Berlin abduction under the noses of the Russians, done by an agent who can be disowned if anything goes wrong... Tad Anders is needed again."
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No Place to Hide

Ted Allbeury

New English Library

1984

Also published as Hostage.

"John Rennie is an officer in the SIS. Unshakeable dedicated Rennie is a true professional. He is sent to Paris to investigate the kidnapping of another SIS officer. The trail leads him to Amsterdam and to the Arab terrorist cell responsible for the abduction. Rennie is ordered to snatch the children of a prominent Arab and the SIS officer is released. But Rennie is not happy about the distress caused to the children and he resigns threatening to expose the SIS 'dirty tricks' department. Tipped off that he is to be eliminated he makes his way secretly to Canada with his drop-out girlfriend from Amsterdam. But escaping his old life could never be so easy."
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Children of Tender Years

Ted Allbeury

New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton

1985

"Jake Malik an SIS Officer is sent to West Germany to uncover - not infiltrate - KGB activity there. But he does not know that his bosses have sent him for a very different reason. His liaison is Heinz Fischer from the German Political Police. Fischer's sister Lisa falls in love with the lonely Englishman not realising that his mission could destroy the foundations of their lives."
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The Choice

Ted Allbeury

New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton

1986

Subsequently published as Never Look Back.

"He had been born and brought up poor. Still poor, he had married - a wartime wedding. Quiet. Mary his wife came from the same street and was quietly happy. There was her ambition: to be quietly happy, and live where they'd always lived. But then he started doing rather well. A job turned into a career and the career demanded a move, and another. Mary, more and more unhappy, watched as he grew away from her and the background they shared. Where he saw new interests, she saw pretensions, where he saw opportunity, she saw upheaval. Physically together, they were splitting apart. And then he met Sally.....The Choice."
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The Seeds of Treason

Ted Allbeury

New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton

1986

"Jan Massey Head of British Intelligence in Berlin falls in love with Anna Kholkov wife of a KGB officer. When she is arrested Massey is forced into betraying his country. Arthur Johnson a signalman working in Massey's Berlin office has other reasons for betraying his country as does Eric Mayhew at GCHQ in the UK. At GCHQ's American counterpart the NSA James Vick is manipulated into betrayal by the apparently unattainable Kirstin Swenson who works for the KGB. Four people - with different motivations and in different circumstances - all betray their countries. But Massey refuses to betray the woman he loves... and as the fragile counter-intelligence network starts reacting to the ripples of Massey's treason so the four stories begin to connect."
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The Crossing

Ted Allbeury

New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton

1987

Subsequently also published as Berlin Exchange.

"The identities of several Russian agents become known to the West. The chase is on to gather the evidence needed to incriminate them. One of the leaders of the hunt is the brilliant British spycatcher Joe Shapiro, who persuades the Americans into exchanging a notorious and high-ranking KGB spy for the seemingly unimportant American spy-pilot Gary Powers. Joe Schapiro has more than a professional interest in the case, and the intricate web of lies and deception behind the exchange of spies hides secrets that must never be revealed."
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A Wilderness of Mirrors

Ted Allbeury

New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton

1988

"A senior SIS field officer has gone missing. Thornton is ordered to investigate discreetly. He'd talk to a few people, invent some plausible, probably bureaucratic reason. Check records. Pull back if anyone got too interested. He knew that Fisher, the missing man, was good. Good enough to do things his own way, not the head office way, and get away with it. No money troubles. No indiscretions. Balanced. No question of defection. Thorton soon enters a maze of lies, obstruction and deception surrounding an innocent German girl with extraordinary powers, KGB and CIA plots and counter plots, an East/West kidnapping - and a spy with a conscience."
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Deep Purple

Ted Allbeury

New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton

1989

"Defectors come in two sorts: One is the plain dealer with a story to sell and the other is the false flag job. Hoggart and Fletcher are MI6 defector graders who are set to work on two very different Russians telling remarkably similar stories. But unless both defectors are lying, the KGB have someone placed hazardously high in the echelons of MI6."
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Time Without Shadows

Ted Allbeury

New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton

1990

Subsequently also published as Rules of the Game.

"When the SS destroyed Special Operations Executive's Scorpio network in Occupied France, only Henri Masson escaped. Then his post-war trial was abruptly halted after a high level British intervention. Forty years later, awkward questions are raised in Westminster and the case has been reopened. The first thing Harry Chapman of MI6 discovers is that all records were destroyed by a senior SIS officer. The second is that there are still survivors from the Scorpio affair - and that Henri Masson might be among them. Chapman begins a journey into the past, to France in the 1940s, to a time when few men were what they seemed - and fewer still could be trusted."
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Other Kinds Of Treason

Ted Allbeury

New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton

1990

A short story collection.

"A collection of short stories of love, war and betrayal."The contents (of a later edition) are:
  • The Three Angels
  • Time Spent In Reconnaissance
  • The Red Mustang
  • The Girl From Addis
  • Double Game
  • The Other Kind Of Treason
  • Just An Ordinary Woman
  • The Reunion
  • The Rocking-Horse Spy
  • You Were Never Lovelier
  • The Party Of The Second Part
  • The Dandled Days
  • Box Number 742
  • The Walking Wounded
  • Grace And Favour
  • As Time Goes By
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The Dangerous Edge

Ted Allbeury

New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton

1991

"British Intelligence fear that a journalistic investigation into their collaboration with war criminals during and after World War Two will cause a political scandal. Mallory, one of their bright young men, is given the task of digging up the dirt before the press do. What he uncovers in Holland and Germany is a web of deceit, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. But can he prove it to his bosses when the only person who has all the answers does not want to be found?"
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Show Me A Hero

Ted Allbeury

New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton

1992

"Andrei Aarons is just twenty when he becomes a spy. Quiet, idealistic, a true believer, always able to justify the imperfections of the Russian Revolution. Picked, trained and given an assignment in New York, he begins his extraordinary life as the most successful espionage agent the Soviets ever had. So why did six American presidents trust him? This novel, based on highly confidential information, is the story of the ultimate failure of communism seen through the eyes of one of the most secret participants in its seventy-four year history, a man once described by the Pentagon as 'the man who won the Cold War'."
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The Line-Crosser

Ted Allbeury

New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton

1993

"Charlie Foster runs an SIS network into East Berlin. When Three of his couriers are arrested and London is ready to let them rot, Charlie, in anger, does his own deal. He trades his services to the East Germans and the Russians in exchange for his people's freedom. From his collaboration he builds up a complete picture of all those in Europe who were Stasi and KGB informers. When the Berlin Wall comes down Charlie Foster has something everybody wants. SIS, the West Germans, the Americans and all the collaborators. They are all determined to get Charlie Foster's list. Or Charlie himself."
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As Time Goes By

Ted Allbeury

New English Library / Hodder & Stoughton

1994

"In 1942 three young women are parachuted into the Dordogne to work for a Special Operations Executive network. Their leader is Harry Bailey, a young man who loves one of them and fears for them all. Paulette, the passionately committed Frenchwoman, who never forgets her need for revenge against the Germans... down-to-earth Vi, motivated by an unselfish sense of obligation... Jenny, the least committed of the three, and the one who must find the most courage. As the months of dangerous waiting turn at last into active combat behind enemy lines as D-Day approaches, the three heroines' story moves to its unforgettable climax."
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Beyond the Silence

Ted Allbeury

Hodder & Stoughton

1995

Also published as The Spirit of Liberty.

"Lord Carling is one of the great and the good now, but once he was just George Carling, a privileged young idealist who wrote a letter to the Soviet Embassy to say how much he admired the way the Russians were resisting the Nazis. And later he was an intelligence officer for the SIS. A very good officer with very accurate information about the Soviet Union and a cordial relationship with the Americans. Now, the whisper has gone round that Carling's information was too good to be honest. That he was too close to Philby and the other legendary traitors of his era and that he might have been working for the wrong people. So SIS sends Tim Mathews to find out what Carling has to say about his past and his friends. Mathews is surprised when Carling talks candidly about how he found information, friendship and even love on the other side of the Berlin Wall in the days when the Cold War very nearly became World War III. Carling's real secrets are deeper and more astonishing. For he is the man who knows about Kim Philby's last great coup: the ultimate deception of the Cold War."
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The Long Run

Ted Allbeury

Hodder & Stoughton

1996

"In Washington, in London, in Berlin, very different men confront a future they distrust and despise. In the years since the end of the Cold War, true power seems to have shifted from their nations' natural leaders to a gaggle of irresponsible journalists and self- seeking politicians, cynically manipulating news and public opinion to their own ends. These men have not forgotten the lessons of five decades of clandestine struggle. And when a long-dead spy's secrets resurface, they see an opportunity. But can any man, no matter how well-meaning, seize the reigns of power without endangering the very way of life he seeks to protect?"
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Aid and Comfort

Ted Allbeury

Hodder & Stoughton

1997

"One spring day in 1985 Arthur Casey marches into the Soviet embassy in Washington offering his services as an informant. He's the most valuable asset the KGB will ever have. Yuri Volkov is the KGB officer appointed as Jarvis's 'controller'. He comes to despise the weak and feckless American prepared to send men to their deaths for financial gain. Larry Getz is the senior CIA officer who must hunt down the traitor in their midst. So begins a cat-and-mouse game of danger and deception, bluff and double-bluff in which, if Getz is to succeed, he'll have to bend the rules and violate the sanctity of the US Constitution. But does the end justify the means? And Just how dirty is Getz prepared to play?"
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Shadow of a Doubt

Ted Allbeury

Hodder & Stoughton

1998

"Accused by a malicious biographer of political interference, gross errors of judgement, adultery and virtual treason, former Director-General of MI6 Sir James Frazer prepares to do battle. But, in taking out libel action, Sir James must submit to the rigours of high profile court case in which his incredible past and turbulent private life are brought under the intense scrutiny. Old wounds must be re-opened and long-standing secrets dramatically uncovered with devastating consequences for the security of the British Intelligence network."
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The Reckoning

Ted Allbeury

Hodder & Stoughton

1999

"Katya Felinska is a beautiful and talented photo-journalist, passionately committed to championing the rights of the oppressed. Max Inman is a brilliant and incisive political journalist. They have been together for almost twenty years. But Max is also an undercover agent, one of MI6's most important sources on the real thinking of Russian and German leaders in the tense months leading up to the disintegration of the Iron Curtain and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Then things go wrong. Horribly wrong. And Katya must summon all her courage and ingenuity to save the man she loves."
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The Assets

Ted Allbeury

Hodder & Stoughton

2000

Also published as Due Process.

"Operation MKUltra. The CIA's most secret project. Involving mind-control under the influence of drugs and hypnosis, it uses unwitting individuals for intelligence gathering and counter-espionage. The illicit experiments carried out under MKUltra can have terrifying - sometimes tragic - human consequences. It is Senator Joe Maguire's task to monitor the goings-on of MKUltra and to pick up the pieces when things go wrong. A fundamentally decent man, Maguire is plagued with doubts about what he is doing. Just how far should one go to protect democracy against those who whould destroy it?"
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