"Intricate plotting, sly humor, sudden violence: this spy novel has it all..." Tom Worrell, Yale Record editor 1968 was in the middle of the cold war. It was a time when Washington was still pretty much a small southern city, Pan Am and TWA were the dominant airlines, and in most places in Europe you had to go to a Post and Telegraph Office to book a telephone call if you didn't have a home or office phone, which most people didn't. Into this milieu...