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Author(s): Allbeury, Ted

1st thus. This collection first published in 1990; all stories it contains previously published separately. 215pp. In black cloth covered-boards with gilt lettering to spine. Richly coloured endpapers. (Boards strong, sharp-edged, and clean, just a little bruised at spine ends). Some page toning else internally neat and clean. In its original dust jacket (slightly chipped around corners). The dust jacket is now protected in an archival quality mylar wrapper, fitted without use of adhesives or tape. A collection of short stories of war, espionage, treason and crime. Ted Allbeury was a British author, writing mainly espionage fiction. He served as an intelligence office in the Special Operations Executive during the second world war, and is said to have been the only British Secret Agent who parachuted into Nazi Germany during the war and remained there until the Allied armies arrived. He wrote over forty novels, often drawing on his war time experience, some of which were published under the pen names Patrick Kelly and Richard Butler.

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