Colonel Butler's Wolf - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0708815782 ISBN 13: 9780708815786

Publisher: Futura Publications, 1979

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A spy novel, the third to feature David Audley, who here goes to Hadrian's Wall where he plans to use his Intelligence colleague as a decoy to flush out a Soviet agent.

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COLONEL BUTLER’S WOLF

Top British Intelligence Agent Colonel Butler was investigating the background of a young university lecturer who had died under suspicious circumstances.

At Oxford he was told that foreign agents were systematically ruining the careers of the most of promising students – and a car he was travelling in was attacked by a mysterious sniper.

In Northumberland, at the parental home of the dead lecturer’s girlfriend, the redoubtable Dr Audley put in an appearance, and sent Butler on a hiking tour.

Audley’s plan was to use Colonel Butler as a decoy to flush out a new Soviet agent. And as he followed Hadrian’s Wall, the deadly chess game entered its final phase...

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