The World's Greatest Spy Stories
By Kurt Singer | |
Publisher | Harlequin Romance #426 |
Release Month | 1958 (US) |
Harlequin Romance Series # | |
Preceded by | The Return Of Nighthawk |
Followed by | Nurse Brookes |
- Author: Kurt Singer
- Publisher: Harlequin Romance #426
- Year: 1958
Book Description
"The history of espionage is as old as the history of mankind," says Kurt Singer.
Himself the writer of half a dozen books on spies and traitors, this subject has so fascinated him that it has become his hobby, and out of his vast private collection of spy stories, both fact and fiction, he has selected those that he considers the best for inclusion in this book.
The heights and the depths, the noble and the sordid, the infinite variety of human emotions that motivate the spy - all are explored by such distinguished story tellers as Somerset Maugham, T.E. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad and Edgar Wallace to name but a few, and the readers who loves to lose himself in a good spy story will find here all the excitement and thrills, the glamour and the danger, which epitomise the act of aspionage.
Contents: Introduction by Kurt Singer; The Spy School In Leningrad, by Jan Valtin; Belgrade, by Eric Ambler; The Executioner, by Hilda Jung; The Man Who Did Business With Himmler, by Edwin Mueller; The Traitor, by W. Somerset Maugham; I Was A Red Spy In Korea, by Serge Molonkev; A Man's Foes, by Pearl S. Buck; The Informer, by Joseph Conrad; The Dark Intruder, by Franz von Rintelen; Code No. 2, by Edgar Wallace; Blowing Up A Train, by T. E. Lawrence.