Passport to Oblivion [antikvár]

PASSPORT TO OBLIVION Previously published under the film title WHERE THE SPIES ARE 'As K pushed his way through the glass doors of the Park Hotel, he realized instinctively why the two stumpy men were waiting by the reception desk. They had come to kill him. .. Who was K - and why should anyone kill him? Who was the bruised girl in Romé? Why did a refugee strangle his mistress in an hotel on the edge of the Arctic Circle? And why, in a small office above a wholesale fruiterers in Covent Garden, did a red-haired Scot sift through fiiing cabinets for the name of a man he knew in Burma twenty years ago? None of these questions might seem to concern Dr Jason Love, a country practitioner of Bishop's Combé, Somerset. But, in the end, they all do. Apart from his patients, Dr Love has apparently only two outside interests: his supercharged Cord roadster, and the occasional Judo lessons he gives to the local branch of the British Légion. But out of the past, to which all forgottén things should belong, a man comes to see him - and his simple, everyday country-life world is shattered like a mirror by a -38 buliét. Here is a new character in suspense fiction - and a new type of suspense story, where fact is so closely fused with fiction that it is difficult to teli them apart. Thus the frightening question is not could this happen, but when will it happen here?