The Garden of Weapons

London England: Book Club Associates. Very Good/Very Good. 1981. First BCA Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardback Hardcover In his last novel, The Nostradamus Traitor, John Gardiner introduced readers to Big Herbie Kruger, the German-born intellectual spymaster working at the heart of Britain's security services. For the bulk of his life, the large lumbering Kruger has worked in the secret world, achieving great success, at the height of the Cold War. In the sixties, however, a few years after the building of the infamous Berlin Wall, Kruger's cover was destroyed. Nevertheless, a handful of surveillance agents, set up by Kruger and working in East Berlin, continue to be very much Herbie's responsibility. But when a high-ranking KGB officer commits suicide, and another defects, Kruger becomes more than a little concerned for the safety of his 'Telegraph Boys', as they are known. Big Herbie is authorised to mount an operation aimed at discovering if there is a double within the Telegraph Boys. Against orders, Kruger knows the only certain way is to go into East Berlin - emotionally a shattering experience. The way Kruger baits his trap, his desperate search in East Berlin to learn the traitor's identity before he, himself, is discovered, makes a marvellous and ingenious suspense story. small ink dot inside .