Titles by: J.D. Mallinson

The plot of this spy-detective novel turns on a senior figure in British Intelligence, who is being blackmailed by an American spy. The blackmail material, a photograph showing the Intelligence man as a former Nazi officer, is concealed in a travel book called Bannerman�s Guide taken by a young British diplomat on a Danube River cruise from Vienna to the Black Sea and back. As several people are carrying other copies of the book, the story turns on who has possession of the key copy, which the American spy hopes will reach the hands of KGB agents at some undetermined point during the cruise. Various individuals are also keen to get hold of the key copy. These include an American double agent posing as a collector of folk music, and an agent of Siegfried, an organization that materially assists former Nazis. As the cruise progresses, mysterious incidents connected with the guide book occur at each of the several East European capitals along the Danube. Budapest, Belgrade and Bucharest during the Cold War era form fascinating venues and authentic background based on the author�s travel experience. An English detective, Inspector Mason, begins the cruise as a genuine tourist, but gets drawn in to investigating these incidents in considerable depth, and at considerable risk to himself, until he has gathered enough evidence to be able to solve the puzzle in London. Who is carrying the key copy of the Bannerman, the significance of the material it contains and the unmasking of the spy form the intriguing climax to the story. Something of a genuine holiday atmosphere on the boat is maintained throughout, including a romantic interest and a rivalry between Mason and the young diplomat over one of the women passengers.

Treat yourself to a cruise on Europe's majestic Danube River from Vienna to the Black Sea with a mixed group of characters who are unwittingly drawn into an intriguing espionage plot. From your armchair explore the fascinating old cities of Budapest, Belgrade and Bucharest as each port of call on the outward and return voyages carries the plot a significant stage further and the tensions and rivalries on board become more acute.

The plot of this spy-detective novel turns on a senior figure in British Intelligence, who is being blackmailed by an American spy. The blackmail material, a photograph showing the Intelligence man as a former Nazi officer, is concealed in a travel book called Bannerman�s Guide taken by a young British diplomat on a Danube River cruise from Vienna to the Black Sea and back. As several people are carrying other copies of the book, the story turns on who has possession of the key copy, which the American spy hopes will reach the hands of KGB agents at some undetermined point during the cruise. Various individuals are also keen to get hold of the key copy. These include an American double agent posing as a collector of folk music, and an agent of Siegfried, an organization that materially assists former Nazis. As the cruise progresses, mysterious incidents connected with the guide book occur at each of the several East European capitals along the Danube. Budapest, Belgrade and Bucharest during the Cold War era form fascinating venues and authentic background based on the author�s travel experience. An English detective, Inspector Mason, begins the cruise as a genuine tourist, but gets drawn in to investigating these incidents in considerable depth, and at considerable risk to himself, until he has gathered enough evidence to be able to solve the puzzle in London. Who is carrying the key copy of the Bannerman, the significance of the material it contains and the unmasking of the spy form the intriguing climax to the story. Something of a genuine holiday atmosphere on the boat is maintained throughout, including a romantic interest and a rivalry between Mason and the young diplomat over one of the women passengers.

Treat yourself to a cruise on Europe's majestic Danube River from Vienna to the Black Sea with a mixed group of characters who are unwittingly drawn into an intriguing espionage plot. From your armchair explore the fascinating old cities of Budapest, Belgrade and Bucharest as each port of call on the outward and return voyages carries the plot a significant stage further and the tensions and rivalries on board become more acute.

The plot of this spy-detective novel turns on a senior figure in British Intelligence, who is being blackmailed by an American spy. The blackmail material, a photograph showing the Intelligence man as a former Nazi officer, is concealed in a travel book called Bannerman�s Guide taken by a young British diplomat on a Danube River cruise from Vienna to the Black Sea and back. As several people are carrying other copies of the book, the story turns on who has possession of the key copy, which the American spy hopes will reach the hands of KGB agents at some undetermined point during the cruise. Various individuals are also keen to get hold of the key copy. These include an American double agent posing as a collector of folk music, and an agent of Siegfried, an organization that materially assists former Nazis. As the cruise progresses, mysterious incidents connected with the guide book occur at each of the several East European capitals along the Danube. Budapest, Belgrade and Bucharest during the Cold War era form fascinating venues and authentic background based on the author�s travel experience. An English detective, Inspector Mason, begins the cruise as a genuine tourist, but gets drawn in to investigating these incidents in considerable depth, and at considerable risk to himself, until he has gathered enough evidence to be able to solve the puzzle in London. Who is carrying the key copy of the Bannerman, the significance of the material it contains and the unmasking of the spy form the intriguing climax to the story. Something of a genuine holiday atmosphere on the boat is maintained throughout, including a romantic interest and a rivalry between Mason and the young diplomat over one of the women passengers.

Treat yourself to a cruise on Europe's majestic Danube River from Vienna to the Black Sea with a mixed group of characters who are unwittingly drawn into an intriguing espionage plot. From your armchair explore the fascinating old cities of Budapest, Belgrade and Bucharest as each port of call on the outward and return voyages carries the plot a significant stage further and the tensions and rivalries on board become more acute.

A young Englishman called John Ormond, employed as a translator by a Helsinki language school, suddenly disappears without leaving a trace. Subsequent enquiries made at the bequest of the British Embassy lead to a dead end, but several unusual features of the case warrant the interest of Scotland Yard, who send one of their most experienced Special Branch agents, Inspector George Mason, to re-open the case. He contacts Major Viljo Forsenius, a Helsinki police chief, who hands him a dossier containing all known facts about Ormond and a pocket diary listing names and telephone numbers of the translator�s associates. Mason visits Ormond�s apartment and also discovers a Russian novel presented to Ormond by an individual named Maxim just before the translator�s disappearance. Mason then contacts all persons listed in the diary and meets Ormond�s girlfriend, Helvi. It transpires that Helvi�s uncle, Paavo Kilpinen, had contacts with a prominent Russian author who fled to the West about the same time Ormond disappeared, carrying a book manuscript the Russian authorities are determined to suppress. Ormond, a keen Russophile, had been entrusted with translating the book into English. When Mason�s attempts at tracing Ormond prove inconclusive, Scotland Yard instruct him to concentrate on recovering the important manuscript. Are Ormond and the manuscript to be found together, or have they somehow become separated? Did Ormond defect with it to Russia with Maxim, or was he abducted there by Russian agents? As Mason�s investigations slowly proceed, he realizes that his movements are being closely shadowed by unknown parties after the same quarry. Will Inspector Mason beat them to it? Will John Ormond eventually resurface? The action of the story unfolds against an authentically described background of Finland in winter, involving George Mason in sauna baths, cross-country skiing and Helsinki night-life dur- ing the course of his investigations.

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