The Quiller Memorandum

Summary

British agent Quiller works alone in Cold War Berlin to infiltrate a neo Nazi organization that has murdered fellow operatives. Adam Hall, the pen name of Elleston Trevor, writes in a tense first person voice heavy on tradecraft, interrogation, and the psychological strain of a spy who refuses to carry a gun. The book launched a long running series and helped define the harder, more clinical strain of espionage fiction that followed John le Carré.