For almost half a lifetime ex-agent Richard Gardiner has buried his searing memories of treachery and torture, of that nightmare time in the bloody double-cross cellars of the Gestapo. And the hideus sick double-cross that followed when freedom appeared to be within his grasp. 

          Now 1944 appears a long time ago. Until skilled manipulators, playing on the horrors of Gardiner’s wartime experience, try to take the truth out of him. The killing-ground is among old friends and enemies. The search is for the man who always betrayed and murdered by proxy. The man known as WOLF…

          “Classic espionage… fiercely told”       The Times