Quiller is older now, embittered, cynical and running on empty. A sorely needed vacation is rudely interrupted with an urgent mission to Moscow.
A reliable British agent, Schrenk, an old partner of Quiller's, has been captured by the Russians...
Quiller is in Hong Kong, where he thinks he's on vacation. But every alleyway leads dead to danger, and Quiller gets the message: he's never off duty.
The plot moves into a high gear. Quiller always enjoyed his rides, but this one is taxing....
"The deadline was close and I knew now what London had sent me out here to do: define, infiltrate and destroy. And I couldn't do it just by standing in the way of the program Moscow was running. I'd have to get inside and blow it up from there."
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Summoned late at night to the Bureau, Quiller attends a secret conference with the foreign secretary and a surprise defector: the Chinese ambassador to Britain. Minutes later, shots ring out and the ambassador's body is flung out onto the...
Tout à la joie de l’arrivée de son fils adoptif Antoine, nommé major de sa promotion à l’Ecole de Police, San-Antonio doit très vite déchanter : par un fâcheux concours de circonstances, Antoine se retrouve le...