A SPY'S CONFESSIONS
"We were workmen, doing a series of hard, mean, dangerous, unrelated jobs. There was no credit or praise for success —merely prompt dismissal for failure. We violated all the normal decent human instincts, under orders . . . ." So speaks the narrator in Mr. Henry W. Lanier's "Secret Life of a Secret Agent." This narrator was a spv—presumably German —and Mr. Lanier says that lie has written the book "from long and intimate talks with the man whose extraordinary history I have tried to portrav." It is an exciting enough stoijy, but Mr. Lanier's treatment makes it read moro like fiction than fact.
"Secret Life of a Secret Agent," by Henry W. Lanier. (Lippincott.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23565, 27 January 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)
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114A SPY'S CONFESSIONS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23565, 27 January 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)
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