Book Synopsis: Watcher In the Shadows is the story of a manhunt, of a protracted duel fought out in London and in the countryside of Sussex by two of the most accomplished and deadly intelligence officers to have survived the Second World War. One of them is a Viennese who served in the British Intelligence: the other is a dangerous fanatic who has already murdered three mes. Their duel begins ten years after V-E Day and they bring to it every ounce of the cunning and courage on which their lives depend. They are fighting over a woman long dead, yet a new love emerges from their struggle and gives to one of them, the Austrian Count, a powerful incentive to live. The tension in this book would be unbearable were it not for periods of poetic relief. Geoffrey
Household, who was himself a distinguished intelligence officer during the war, is also a lover of nature; his description of downs and hedges, of dense woods and the wildlife they contain, sets off and enhances the action as it mounts to its grim climax. Watcher in the Shadows is the most exciting, most skillfully wrought novel which Mr. Household has done since Rouge Male.
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