Phyllis Bottome

Mark Chalmers, 36, dark-haired, athletic, keen on skiing and winter sports, speaks fluent French and German and has a taste for wine, food, and women. Sounds familiar? It is 1938, pre the Munich Agreement and post Anschluss. Chalmers, a master at Eton, is recruited by an old friend at the Foreign Office and introduced to his boss, ‘B’. Chalmers reluctantly...