The Double Game (48 page)

The originals of these documents are presumably still in the possession of the Central Intelligence Agency, unless of course no one ever checked the post office box in Herndon, Virginia.

Someone at the Agency must have gotten wind of my plans, because recently one of their employees phoned me. I wasn’t surprised that they knew, since I’d told Marty Ealing what I was doing the day I gave notice, and he’s a terrible gossip.

The caller sounded young and inexperienced, but he wasted no time in sternly reminding me of the nondisclosure agreement, and the possible consequences of violating it.

“It’s a novel,” I said. “Completely made up. Ed Lemaster’s name won’t even be mentioned.”

“So this isn’t for
Vanity Fair
?”

“No. There won’t be a single fact involved.”

“Okay. But you also should be aware that former employees must also submit novels before publication.”

“But I was never an Agency employee, as you know. And the agreement I signed covers only the facts.” He wasn’t quite sure how to respond. I felt a little sorry for him.

“Well, just be careful, then.”

“Oh, I will. Very careful.”

He apologized for bothering me. Then he wished me luck.

Sometimes even the idle wishes of a nameless CIA man come true, and this morning a reputable publishing house in New York telephoned to offer me a contract based on my cover letter, an outline, and fifty sample pages.

Tonight, David and I will celebrate with our usual fare at Martin’s Tavern. I doubt we will see a woman wearing a red carnation, but you never know. He and I have already made plans to meet my father this December. In Berlin, of course. What better place, now that each of us in his own way has played at being a spy.

I figure my book will take about a year to finish, but I’ve already roughed out the plot, sketched the characters, and have an ending in mind. I’ve also decided that the opening words will not appear in the first chapter, or even in the prologue. They will be printed on the epigraph page, right up front, so that no reader can possibly miss them.

They go like this:

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Appendix

Warfield Cage’s Library of Espionage First Editions

The following are
218
books, by
47
authors,
18
of whom worked in intelligence (their names are in
boldface
),
6
more of whom worked in foreign ministries or a war/defense office.

Of these,
57
of the books were published prior to 1950.

By author

Allbeury, Ted

—
Snowball,
1974

—
The Special Collection,
1975

—
The Lantern Network,
1978

—
The Alpha List,
1979

—
The Other Side of Silence,
1981

—
No Place to Hide,
1986

—
A Wilderness of Mirrors,
1988

Ambler, Eric

—
The Dark Frontier,
1936

—
Uncommon Danger
(U.S.:
Background to Danger
), 1937

—
Epitaph for a Spy,
1938

—
Cause for Alarm,
1938

—
The Mask of Dimitrios
(U.S.:
A Coffin for Dimitrios
), 1939

—
Journey into Fear,
1940

—
Judgment on Deltchev,
1951

—
The Levanter,
1972

Bingham, John
(Lord Clanmorris)

—
A Fragment of Fear,
1965

—
The Double Agent,
1966

—
Brock and the Defector,
1982

Buchan, John

—
The Thirty-nine Steps,
1915

—
Greenmantle,
1916

—
Mr. Standfast,
1919

—
Huntingtower,
1922

—
The Three Hostages,
1924

—
The Courts of the Morning,
1929

Buckley, William F., Jr
(Blackford Oakes novels)

—
Saving the Queen,
1976

—
Stained Glass,
1978

—
Who’s on First,
1980

—
The Story of Henri Tod,
1984

—
See You Later, Alligator,
1985

—
High Jinx,
1986

—
Mongoose R.I.P.,
1987

Burgess, Anthony
(Army intel cipher work during WWII)

—
Tremor of Intent,
1966

Childers, Erskine

—
The Riddle of the Sands,
1903

Coles, Manning
(Adelaide Frances Oke Manning [
war office
] and Cyril Henry Coles [
British intelligence
]) (Tommy Hambledon series)

—
Drink to Yesterday,
1940

—
Pray Silence
(U.S.:
A Toast to Tomorrow
), 1940

—
They Tell No Tales,
1941

—
Without Lawful Authority,
1943

—
Green Hazard,
1945

—
The Fifth Man,
1946

—
Let the Tiger Die,
1947

—
A Brother for Hugh,
1947 (U.S.:
With Intent to Deceive
)

—
Among Those Absent,
1948

—
Diamonds to Amsterdam,
1949

—
Not Negotiable,
1949

—
Dangerous by Nature,
1950

—
Now or Never,
1951

—
Alias Uncle Hugo,
1952 (U.K.:
Operation Manhunt
)

—
Night Train to Paris,
1952

Conrad, Joseph

—
The Secret Agent,
1907

—
Under Western Eyes,
1911

Cooper, James Fenimore

—
The Spy,
1821

Cory, Desmond (Shaun Lloyd McCarthy) (Johnny Fedora series)

—
Secret Ministry,
1951

—
This Traitor, Death,
1952

—
Dead Man Falling,
1953

—
Intrigue,
1954

—
Height of Day,
1955

—
High Requiem,
1955

—
Johnny Goes North,
1956

—
Johnny Goes East,
1957

—
Johnny Goes West,
1958

—
Johnny Goes South,
1959

—
The Head,
1960

—
Undertow,
1962

—
Hammerhead,
1963

—
Feramontov,
1966

—
Timelock,
1967

—
Sunburst,
1971

Deighton, Len

—
The Ipcress File,
1962

—
Horse Under Water,
1963

—
Funeral in Berlin,
1964

—
Billion-Dollar Brain,
1966

—
An Expensive Place to Die,
1967

—
Spy Story,
1974

—
Yesterday’s Spy,
1975

—
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy,
1976

—
Berlin Game,
1983

—
Mexico Set,
1984

—
London Match,
1985

—
Spy Hook,
1988

—
Spy Line,
1989

Diment, Adam

—
The Dolly Dolly Spy
(Philip McAlpine series), 1967

—
The Great Spy Race,
1968

—
The Bang Bang Birds,
1968

—
Think Inc.
1971

Durrell, Lawrence
(British Foreign Office, in Yugo)

—
White Eagles over Serbia,
1957

Fleming, Ian
(James Bond series)

—
Casino Royale,
1953

—
Live and Let Die,
1954

—
Moonraker,
1955

—
Diamonds Are Forever,
1956

—
From Russia, with Love,
1957

—
Dr. No,
1958

—
Goldfinger,
1959

—
For Your Eyes Only,
1960

—
Thunderball,
1961

—
The Spy Who Loved Me,
1962

—
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,
1963

—
You Only Live Twice,
1964

—
The Man with the Golden Gun,
1965

—
Octopussy and The Living Daylights,
1966

Furst, Alan

—
Night Soldiers,
1988

Gainham, Sarah

—
The Stone Roses,
1959

—
Night Falls on the City,
1967

Garner, William

—
Overkill
(Michael Jagger), 1966

—
The Deep, Deep Freeze,
1968

—
The Us or Them War,
1969

Grady, James

—
Six Days of the Condor,
1974

—
Shadow of the Condor,
1978

Greene, Graham

—
The Confidential Agent,
1939

—
The Quiet American,
1955

—
Our Man in Havana,
1958

—
The Human Factor,
1978

Hall, Adam (Elleston Trevor)

—
The Berlin Memorandum
(U.S.:
The Quiller Memorandum
), 1965

—
The Ninth Directive,
1966

—
The Striker Portfolio,
1968

—
The Warsaw Document,
1971

—
The Tango Briefing,
1973

—
The Mandarin Cypher,
1975

—
The Sinkiang Executive,
1978

—
The Scorpion Signal,
1979

—
Northlight
(U.S.: Quiller), 1985

—
Quiller KGB,
1989

Hamilton, Donald (Matt Helm novels)

—
Death of a Citizen,
1960

—
The Wrecking Crew,
1960

—
The Removers,
1961

—
The Silencers,
1962

—
Murderers’ Row,
1962

Hone, Joseph

—
The Private Sector
(Peter Marlow), 1971

—
The Sixth Directorate,
1975

Hood, William
(worked for James Angleton)

—
Spy Wednesday,
1986

—
Cry Spy,
1990 (last non-
Lemaster
purchase in the collection)

Household, Geoffrey

—
Rogue Male,
1939

Hunt, E. Howard

—
East of Farewell,
1942

—
Stranger in Town,
1947

—
Maelstrom,
1948

—
Bimini Run,
1949

—
The Berlin Ending,
1973

—
The Gaza Intercept,
1981

—
The Kremlin Conspiracy,
1985

Hunter, Jack D
. (also wrote
The Blue Max
)

—
The Expendable Spy,
1965

—
One of Us Works for Them,
1967

—
Spies, Inc.,
1969

Kipling, Rudyard

—
Kim,
1901

Latham, Aaron

—
Orchids for Mother,
1977 (Angleton novel)

Le Carré, John
(David Cornwell)

—
Call for the Dead,
1961

—
A Murder of Quality,
1962

—
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold,
1963

—
The Looking Glass War,
1965

—
A Small Town in Germany,
1968

—
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,
1974

—
The Honourable Schoolboy,
1977

—
Smiley’s People,
1979

—
The Little Drummer Girl,
1983

—
A Perfect Spy,
1986

—
The Russia House,
1989

Lemaster, Edwin

—
Knee Knockers,
1969

—
A Lesson in Tradecraft,
1971

—
The Double Game,
1973

—
The Cutout,
1976

—
A Spy for All Seasons,
1979

—
London’s Own,
1981

—
A Glancing Blow,
1984

—
Requiem for a Spy,
1986

—
Render unto Caesar,
1989

Post–Cold War

—
A Final Folly
(last novel to feature Folly), 1991

—
The Sinking of the
Bellwether, 1994

—
Strength in Numbers,
1997

—
Duty, Honor, Betrayal,
2000

—
The Tent of the Sheik,
2003

—
Remote Control,
2007

Le Queux, William

—
Strange Tales of a Nihilist,
1892

—
A Secret Service,
1896

—
Her Majesty’s Minister,
1901

—
The Seven Secrets,
1903

—
The Czar’s Spy,
1905