In Secret

ISBN-13: 9781544191560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 226 str.

Robert William Chambers

Opis

The story takes place on the Franco-Swiss frontier during the war. An incredible story, full of suspense and mystery. One of the protagonists is the beautiful and brilliant heroine, Miss Erith. "Toward the last of May a handsome young man wearing a smile and the uniform of an American Intelligence Officer arrived at Delle, a French village on the Franco-Swiss frontier. His credentials being satisfactory he was directed by the Major of Alpinists commanding the place to a small stucco house on the main street. Here he inquired for a gentleman named Number Seventy. The gentleman's other name was John Recklow, and he received the Intelligence Officer, locked the door, and seated himself behind his desk with his back to the sunlit window, and one drawer of his desk partly open. Credentials being requested, and the request complied with accompanied by a dazzling smile, there ensued a silent interval of some length during which the young man wearing the uniform of an American Intelligence Officer was not at all certain whether Recklow was examining him or the papers of identification"