The Faustian pact

Collier Spymasters

by Antony Beevor

VERY GOOD+ Paperback Collier Books / Macmillan, 1989. (1st thus). Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Light chipping to cover edges and faintest age tanning of pages. Appears unread. "the West German Intelligence computer system has broken down. When his repeated efforts to expose this threat are ignored by his superiors, he wonders if his group is just a cosmetic department created and whether the Prime Minister's fate is doomed."

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Sir Antony James Beevor is a British military historian. He has published several popular historical works, mainly on the Second World War, the Spanish Civil War, and most recently the Russian Revolution and Civil War.
Educated at Abberley Hall School, Winchester College, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Beevor commanded a troop of tanks in the 11th Hussars in Germany before deciding in 1970 to leave the army and become a writer. He was a visiting professor at Birkbeck, University of London, and the University of Kent. His best-selling books, Stalingrad (1998) and Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (2002), have been acclaimed for their detailed coverage of the battles between the Soviet Union and Germany, and their focus on the experiences of ordinary people. Berlin proved very controversial in Russia because of the information it contained from former Soviet archives about the mass rapes carried out by the Red Army in 1945.
Beevor's works have been translated into many languages and have sold millions of copies. He has lectured at numerous military headquarters, staff colleges and establishments in Britain, the US, Europe, and Australia. He has also written for many major newspapers.

Reviews

[Peter Brickwood · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really old spy book but it holds up. I mean so old that the spy does research by going to the archives and searching through card catalogues. I read this book because Beevor says that writing novels helps him in writing history books; I still don't see quite how but his history books are great, unusually readable. Spoiler Alert. The idea that a prime minister would have himself kidnaped by terrorist to improve his popularity in the polls, may have seemed surreal in 1984 but the past forty years suggests it is all to likely.