New York: Beaufort Books, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the most prolific and respected modern writers of espionage novels, Allbeury based his novels on his own experiences as an undercover agent during World War II and after (Len Deighton commented that he believed "he was the only British secret agent to have parachuted into Nazi Germany" and during the Cold War, he was captured - and tortured - by the Russians, who left him alive to take his story back to his fellow agents) This book, which features an Auschwitz survivor who is sent back to Germany to investigate rumors of neo-Nazis and anti-Semitism, is one which also depicts "enemy agents as human beings, thus exposing the power relations on both sides as his real target. The human cost for agents of the state on both sides of the iron curtain was his theme." 232 pp. ISBN: 0-825313060.