Follow PI Chester Drum into Germany as he searches for Fred Severing, the missing American vice-presidential candidate. Finding Severing will mean lying to West Germans, East Germans, and Nazis, and perfecting the triple-cross that is the favorite pastime of European Cold Warriors. “Very few writers of the tough private-eye story can tell it more accurately than Mr. Marlowe, or with such taut understatement of violence and sex.” —The New York Times |