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==Book Description==
 
==Book Description==
  
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"The history of espionage is as old as the history of mankind," says Kurt Singer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
  
 
==Cover Variation (By Release Date)==
 
==Cover Variation (By Release Date)==

Latest revision as of 11:00, 24 February 2013

1958 US Edition
By Kurt Singer
Publisher Harlequin Romance #426
Release Month 1958 (US)
Harlequin Romance Series #
Preceded by The Return Of Nighthawk
Followed by Nurse Brookes

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.

Cover Variation (By Release Date)

1958 <br\>US Edition