Agent in Place

Blue cloth over gray boards, silver lettering, corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing, back board starting at last page. Jacket in new Brodart, slight sunning, a little edge wear, small crease to back flap. Overall, a nice copy. ; 7 " - 9 " Tall; 339 pages; "Among the most dangerous pieces on the chessboard of espionage are the gullible idealist in a position of trust and the constantly vulnerable agent in place. When the idealist is duped to reveal sensitive information, when the agent in place is forced into the open, disaster strikes.
"The NATO Memorandum, classified Top Secret, is the ethal prize sought by Soviet Intelligence in the deadly game that continues relentlessly beneath the dubious veneer of detente. A cryptic telephone call to a Russian 'sleeper' in Washington, a mugging-murder of an unidentifiable man, an anonymous leak to the press of one section of the NATO Memorandum .
"A small team of specialists, led by an Englishman working under cover as a businessman, desperately moves to counter the Soviet plan and to save, if they can, the agent now in flight. Their involvement is not only professional but also personal, for friends, an American journalist and his attractive wife, are seriously implicated.
"This dazzling tale races with suspense and stunning revelations to reach an explosive conclusion . In a sunny resort on the French Riviera. "

Product Info

ISBN: 0151039674

ISBN-13: 9780151039678

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Year: 1976

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

Seller Info

OrielisBooks

Address: 1 Martha Lane Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Website: https://www.orielisbooks.com

Country: United States