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By Gavin Lyall

Major Harry Maxim is ex-SAS and he now works as a unique member of quantity 10's backroom employees, advising the PM on issues of defence and protection. This time he's going to be drawn into the shadowy - and lethal - international of East-West intrigue

A deserting English corporal, a cupboard convulsion in East Germany, a double homicide in a small West German city, and a widowed piano instructor in Yorkshire: they're all in some way similar via a gloomy mystery from the prior, and it truly is all the way down to Harry Maxim to discover ahead of it truly is too late.

First released in 1982, The behavior of significant Maxim is the second one novel in his Harry Maxim series.

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Maxim scribbled his home number on an Army calling card. "Get Blagg to call me at that number. Don't have any more bright ideas of your own, just get him to call me " One of the boxers drifted over from the punch-bags, wearing only the protective bandages on his fists. " Maxim ignored him. " He brushed past the boxer and slammed out of the door. Dann gazed after him, his face still mild. He took the stopwatch out and looked at it. Beside him, the chunky man was turning purple and spluttering at the room: "Did you 'ear?

She left this country twenty years ago, and we have no trace. " Husband said: "We're very inclined to doubt it. They'd have put her in the freak show, confessing how misled she was by capitalist gold. " But of course, Agnes realised, Sims - or whoever he'd been born - must once have been on the far side of The Wall, too. " Sims nodded, thanking her. "That is so. But he was only young then, about thirty, and he did not have so far to fall. And also his background was very good. His father had been killed in the Rostock riots of 1931, and it seems that Gustav himself had for certain been a Worker Youth.

That night we had two watchmen outside, just in case. He came out very early, as soon as it was light - about half past five - and drove off to Acton. Acton. You may or may not be familiar with Acton, one gets a glimpse of it from the train, but it largely consists of railway yards, goods depots, great piles of broken-up cars. All rather like a battlefield. " Agnes felt Sir Bruce, stir beside her. "With hindsight, we now see that our soldier friend was in fact leading our agents into his own sort of country.

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