So I told Pol I must work alone. The only way was the quick way and I didn’t want it cluttered up with a motley crew of cover men who’d trip me and get killed in the process.
-- The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall (called The Berlin Memorandum in the UK). This Cold War thriller won the Edgar Award for best mystery novel of the year in 1966.
The Quiller Memorandum was the first of 19 books in the Quiller series, written by British author Elleston Trevor under the pen name Adam Hall. Trevor also wrote books and screenplays under his own name and nine other pen names.
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