New York: The Viking Press, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - Espionage novel set in the early 1900s, in the years leading up to the Great War, Berlin, London, Dublin and Lake Como. Captain Wunder is the stage name for Captain Richard Gaudeans - a man who was once cashiered out of a British regiment in Africa and now works as a Houdini-style escape artist in a sleazy Berlin circus-theater. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-670203556.