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Spy and Counterspy

Spy and Counterspy

Kelland, Clarence Budington

Paperback

Series: Federal Agents

Mystery & Thriller

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ISBN10: 1545446032
ISBN13: 9781545446034
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 1 2017
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
TWO GEEKS AGAINST THE ENTIRE RUSSIAN KGB SPY NETWORK - ONE SIDE IS SLIGHTLY OUT NUMBERED.

An exciting adventure in homicide and an inside picture of a fabulous scientific operation...The rocket-testing grounds of White Sands, New Mexico, are the setting for this Kelland thriller. The author was especially authorized by the Defense Department to explore the closely-guarded confines of White Sands. Thus, with all his accustomed skill and humor, he presents an inside story of fantastic happenings at this vital research center. The result is a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of scientists and security and espionage. And, last but not least, a rocket-paced and colorful novel in the finest Kelland tradition. -Yesterday's Muse

The greatest mystery story of the year and a tantalizing spy story. ... Which of the two lovely women is the spy? -Indianapolis News

More pixilated dialogue, delightfully eccentric characters, and midcentury zeitgeist in bestselling romantic suspense author Clarence Budington Kelland's enthralling peek into the period's most top-secret program. The goings-on at the U.S. rocket testing grounds at White Sands, New Mexico, and the development of guided missiles, were some the nation's most closely guarded secrets-secrets the Reds would kill for.

Dr. Thomas Alva Edison Gimp-one of Kelland's quintessential geek heroes-had been brought there as a leader in the development of the electronic brains needed to guide these missiles. His problems began on the train out, where he first encountered a very alluring and flirtatious woman, then a much-too-friendly professor of art history, and then-murder. His trip didn't get any easier when he arrived at White Sands and met Miss Brown, a woman from his own past, whose job seemed to be anything she wanted it to be and her taste in acquaintances was...questionable. And it all seemed to come to a climax when he met William George Thomas, a man of enormous girth and intellect, whose first encounter with Dr. Gimp may not have been as accidental as it seemed.Gives the reader a peep through the barbed wire at White Sands Proving Ground.

The government allowed the author to visit White Sands to pick up background for his book, and he incorporated a good deal of perfectly sound elementary information about missiles in it.

There are also four murders, romance and plenty of the kind of excitement that would turn a security officer's hair white if it were ever actually to occur. -Sayre, PA Evening Times

[Kelland is] a writer of distinction. -The Detroit News

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