Disorderly Elements

A communist Mole is in the very top level of British Security! Not even the Philby affair was half so serious. There is near panic in the Cabinet. And the shame of it is that part-time don and veteran M16 agent, Michael Wyman, discovered the shocking truth just as he was about to be sacked, pension-less, from the Firm.
With the threat of the biggest security scandal yet, Wyman is sent abroad one last time to discover what he can. His only contact is Plato -a highly placed East German who will tell all - at a price. The price is two million pounds and the Prime Minister is devastated. What is going to happen to the policy of drastic cuts in public spending... ?
' It does for the corridors of British Security what Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn did for the Whitehall mob in Yes Minister. The humour has the same piquant irreverence'
THE OXFORD TIMES
'Spy-fi has unearthed a splendid new recruit in Mr Cook'
THEOBSERVER

Sweeping government economy measures pose great problems for Michael Wyman, a university teacher on a 30-year secondment to British Intelligence. Not only does his MI6 job disappear, but he loses tenure at his college due to cutbacks in funding. Faced with double redundancy, he also discovers that his lover is pregnant. Where lesser men would give up, Wyman creates a phantom intelligence leak. This solution, which involves the KGB, CIA, and his own department, both secures his future and wreaks appropriate revenge on his oppressors. A delightful and clever first novel with a fast-moving plot, extremely witty dialogue, and a style that combines the best of espionage fiction with a "sting" of classic proportions.John North, L.R.C., Ryerson Polytechnical Inst., Toronto
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