Another enjoyable thriller from a great writer
who I can’t but help think is slumming it.
Compared with ‘Any Human Heart’ or ‘The New
Confessions’ this is lightweight stuff. But it is great fun.
It starts in Vienna in 1913, when a young English
actor with the fabulous name of Lysander Rief, has his first appointment with
an English psychiatrist (remember this is the time of Freud and Jung) for help
with a sexual problem. In the waiting room he meets Hettie, with whom he
shortly begins a passionate love affair (the sexual problems don’t last for
long!). But war is imminent and Lysander gets caught up in it as a spy.
Who are the villains? Who can he trust? Will our
hero survive? Dan-da-da-da-dah!
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