The reader is introduced to a bizarre group of oddballs – some genuinely heroic, some venal, some quite boring – who become entangled in these schemes. A final comment, and also the reason I piped up (ad nauseum) in the first place; the tail end of the preceding article refers to Cross being “the ultimate heroine”.

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Although it was occasionally difficult to keep up with who was a double-, triple-, quadruple-, or even quintuple-agent (! At his psychology practice, Alex talks to Sandy Quinlan, a sex-crazed woman and meets another patient, Anthony Demao. When this failed, he apologized, tied the man to a chair, and ran off with a can of sardines, a pineapple, and a large canvas shoe. Both would later deny they had ever been lovers with such vehemence that the denials were almost certainly untrue.The next two attempts were even more farcical; Gösta Caroli and Wulf Schmidt (a Danish citizen) landed, via parachute, in September 1940.

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His French collaborators knew him as Armand Borni; he also used the code name “Walenty,” or Valentine. ch 44 Around 22 June, only one of seven impacts was reported south of the Thames, when 3⁄ 4 of the V-1s had fallen there. The role of main character Alex Cross was also taken up, played by Tyler Perry in the 2012 film titled Alex Cross. Double Cross is the 13th novel in the Alex Cross series featuring Detective Alex Cross by James Patterson. Jebsen’s recruiter was a family friend, Colonel Hans Oster, deputy to Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the chief of the Abwehr.He is a wonderful storyteller and, in this book, he is on territory he seems to understand brilliantly and relish.

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Every signpost, every sign on a truck, every distinguishing mark of any sort, meant far more to me than to anybody else. Masterman (who had, later in the war, headed the Twenty Committee) said that by 1941, MI5 "actively ran and controlled the German espionage system in [the United Kingdom]. Unlike some of Macintyre's earlier books, this one is cursed by its lack of focus, the well-known nature of much of the material and the sprawling cast, but he does everything he can to make it all entertaining.MacIntyre's book on D-Day and the spies and agents who kept the secret and helped focus German intelligence on other places and other times, is filled with characters usually found only in fiction. British intelligence - MI5 (national) and MI6 (international) were cooperating in controlling German spies inside the UK. They included a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a mercurial Frenchwoman, a Serbian seducer, a Alex realizes that the murderer wants an audience, and therefore is nicknamed "DCAK" (an abbreviation of "DC Audience Killer"). Meanwhile, Jezzie Flanagan has risen through the ranks to become the Secret Service’s first-ever female supervisor.

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Eventually transmissions purporting to be from one double agent were facilitated by transferring the operation of the set to the main headquarters of MI5. This is the 30th book, but considering Alex has survived "Kill Alex Cross" before, chances are he survives this one. Even though there were some doubters in the German echelons, this story dreamt up by a team in London was swallowed hook line and sinker. It seems that in the attempt to be good partners, MI 6 let the FBI/OSS run one the agents who had moved to the US. A Scot and something of a playboy, Robertson had some early experience with double agents; just prior to the war he had been case officer to Arthur Owens (code name Snow).

By the summer of 1944 the allies had used high technology to destroy the German air force and navy and to infiltrate German communications. Czerniawski was a Polish patriot, but that phrase cannot do justice to his essential Polishness and the depths of his attachment to his motherland. I suppose it takes a certain individual with the flair and guts to pull of a double crossing spying job, and the five or so foreign spies who were on Sir John Masterman's "Double Cross" system payroll were an intriguing lot. Don’t want to spoil it for you…but if you only read to enjoy the crime solving itself, then I suppose you can just skip around.