What links a secret formula for a new alloy, a short-sighted maker of model ships, international bargaining, a secret agent dying in a hotel, and a Russian ship wrecked off the Yorkshire coast? Welcome to the world of Tim Frazer, the easygoing structural engineer who gets involved with a secret government department and, to his surprise, finds himself recruited as an undercover agent.
From the creator of popular radio detective Paul Temple comes this exciting adventure featuring undercover agent, Tim Frazer. When special agent Leo Salinger is killed by a fast car in Amsterdam, Tim Frazer is sent over to trail the attractive young woman who was at the wheel. Was it a genuine accident? So it seems, until Frazer returns to London and encounters a body instead of an evening date. . .
St Bride's guest house, just outside the town of Melinfforest, was a restful place with glorious views of the Welsh countryside. Tim Frazer, however, had no time for fishing and long country walks. He had been sent there to find out why Miss Thackery, a British intelligence agent, had been brutally murdered and her body dumped in a nearby wood. There was also the matter of a missing German scientist, Kurt Lander, who had been working for the British Government before mysteriously disappearing.