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At the dawn of the Cold War, while risking his life to do the Secret Service's dirty work, Harry Freeland discovers deadly opposition from surprising quarters--including a British double agent intent on framing him
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In Egleton's latest, formulaic thriller ( Missing from the Record ), British intelligence agent Harry Freeland has been sent to Shanghai in 1949 to bring out another operative. As becomes increasingly apparent, however, Freeland seems to have a propensity for bringing bad luck to those around him while surviving himself; though the mission is bungled, Harry escapes. This does not go unnoticed by his superiors in London, who in 1952 send him to West Germany to recruit agents in the Cold War. While there, he discovers the whereabouts of the sadistic Gestapo officer who had directed Harry's torture during WW II, when Harry broke down and disclosed the identity of a French Resistance fighter, since then the subject of his guilt-ridden nightmares. The denouement occurs in the U.S., where Harry, now under serious suspicion of being a double agent, has been dispatched to keep an eye on someone who has been commissioned to watch him. Although Egleton succeeds in evoking the morally ambiguous atmosphere of the spy trade, the separate parts of Harry's story bear very little relationship to one another. One keeps waiting, in vain, for the plot to mesh. The ingredients are there--foreign intrigue, bloody action and a hint of sex. They just fail to connect.
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In the Red
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St. Martin's Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0312046774
ISBN 13: 9780312046774
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st US. (1st U.S. edition, 1st printing) Sturdy book, red covers, very bright silver lettering on spine, 288 pages. DJ glossy in shades of red and pink with illustration of flag, black spine, praise on back from New York Times Book Review, and others. Dj is worn at edges and tips, nick at top back spine indentation. Fair DJ/Fine book. Seller Inventory # 52777
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St Martin's, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0312046774
ISBN 13: 9780312046774
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Condition: NEAR FINE. First US printing. Spy thriller by this master of the genre, set in the late 1940's at the beginning of the Cold War. 288 pp. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (minor edgewear to dj.). Seller Inventory # 43482