Review
The legend is strictly temporal - all clay feet on the not so neutral ground between England and Russia, a suspense story trussed up with romance for the ladies. Peter, formerly SIS, with a dull wife and a duller job, is approached by his former superior, Phillip Wetherby, to retrieve another one of their old associates, presumably a defector hinter Berlin. Turning down the assignment, he accepts the very available love offered him by Mary, Wetherby's niece by marriage. Her husband's sexual perversities had made them both vulnerable to the blackmail of the Russians. And now again as Mary will be the lure to take Peter to the back of beyond Checkpoint Charlie. . . . A lightweight number in high cholesterol prose. (Kirkus Reviews)
Product Description
Peter Arundsen is bored with his conventional wife and his City job, and hankers after the dangerous days when he was a spy with the SIS, whose weekend parties he still attends. He falls in love with the niece of his old SIS chief and finds himself caught in a tangle of treason and intrigue.