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The assassination make an effort on the American president in London bore the sign of the KGB. But with Britain about to hold unilateral discussions with the Russians over Berlin, why should Moscow Centre rock and roll the motorboat? Major Harry Maxim smelled conspiracy. Trouble was, no one wanted to believe that him. So the Major runs hunting, taking with him his old mentor from Downing Avenue days and nights, George Harbinger, and another colleague from ex - times, the not so old and much more attractive Agnes Algar, MIS. It's all highly unofficial. But it doesn't stop Maxim capturing and pistol-whipping his way from London to East Berlin via the Cotswolds, Eastbourne and Illinois, until he finally tracks down the Crocus List - a group of earnest patriots participating in God and troops to open up the country's eyes to the Russian menace. Gavin Lyall (1932-2003) lived in Hampstead and loved cruising on the Thames in his engine cruiser. From 1959 to 1962 he was a newspaper reporter and the aviation correspondent for the Weekend Times. His first book, The Wrong Part of the Sky, was printed in 1961, pulling from his personal encounters in the Libyan Desert and in Greece. Lyall kept journalism in 1963 to become a full-time publisher, writing 17 books before his death in 2003.
