Express ride to assassination
Double Jeopardy. By Colin Forbes. Collins, 1984. 254 pp. $6.50 (paperback). This is a brisk story of double dealing, espionage, and intrigue, in which a neoNazi organisation digs deep into its box of dirty tricks in its bid to wrest political power in a critical state election in West Germany. Hopes for an improvement in EastWest relations are high as the day of the elections draws near. The leaders of the Western Powers board the Summit Express to meet the Soviet Premier in Vienna. They are guarded by their country’s top security chiefs, but one is a “mole,” whose task is to assassinate one of the leaders. The odds are all in the killer’s favour and the hopes for peaceful relations seem doomed by a Sarajevo-type act of violence. The riddle for the British agent in the field is to find out who is the mole, and who is the target, and every second brings the train closer to its moment of destiny. — Jim Donlon.
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