His bride is kidnapped while on their honeymoon in Norway and before long we learn that espionage politics are behind it... specifically the KGB... and to save his wife our hero must fall into line with his wife's kidnappers
Ritchie Perry (born 1942) is a British writer of spy and adventure crime fiction. He has also written novels under the name John Allen, as well as a book on Brazil and some books for children. He lives in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, where he writes and teaches school.
This--the fifth time around for Philis of SR (2)--finds the British operative honeymooning in Norway where his bride Olga is rudely abducted. Naturally, it's anything but a simple snatch. Philis has to do some KGB dirty work--i.e, liquidate a Soviet defector and help crack a fellow agent--to effect his wife's release. About as effortless as unscrewing a silencer.