Spy-Catcher [with] Friend of Foe?
PINTO, Lt.-Col. Oreste
WWII's SPYCATCHER COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Werner Laurier, [1952-53]
Stock code: 50701
Price: £170.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; first volume in green library cloth, second volume in original red cloth, both very good, bright, clean, crisp copies in unclipped dustwrapper.
A Dutch counter-intelligence officer, Oreste Pinto worked during WWII with both MI5 and Polite Buitendienst, as a result of which eight enemy agents, including the notorious 'Traitor of Arnhem' were caught. 'The greatest living expert on security' (Eisenhower). BOTH VOLUMES ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.