Watcher in the Shadows

Charles Dennim hasn't got an enemy in the world. So why would someone send him a bomb in the mail? Because he is also Baron Karol von Dennim, and he once worked at Buchenwald as a Gestapo. He was actually working undercover as a British agent, but whoever is trying to kill him apparently hasn't heard that part, so Charles had better come up with a plan fast if he wants to survive.

Dennim uses the metaphor of tethering a goat to catch a tiger, and he is using himself as the bait. But he has a few tricks leftover from his wartime service, and he just might become the tiger himself.

I really enjoyed this one. I could imagine it as a very tense movie, but the book was good too. Very frustrating as I was just 40 pages from the end and things show more were really intense when I just kept getting interrupted again and again! I finally managed to get rid of all the distractions and finish the last few pages. Very good. show less

dry, but well written w an inborn sense of honor

"The story of a manhunt, a protracted duel fought in London and the English countryside by two of the most accomplished and deadly intelligence officers to have survived World War II. One of them, Charles Dennim, is a Viennese who served in the British Intelligence; the other is a dangerous fanatic who has already murdered three men." - Viking Press jacket notes.
A very good suspense thriller, worth re-reading every few years.

interesting

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England, 1955
Indeholder kapitlerne "1. Første advarsel", "2. Fælden svigter", "3. Gemmeleg", "4. Den lange nat".

Charles Dennim er zoolog, men en dag i 1955 får han en bombe med posten. Den dræber postbudet og Charles går på jagt efter en skygge fra krigens tid. Skyggen har allerede dræbt tre fangevogtere fra Buchenwald og ved ikke at Charles var spion for englænderne som Hauptmann von Dennim. Eller måske ved han det og vil hævne sig for det? Charles tager på landet med det påskud at kigge på grævlinge, men i virkeligheden for at sætte en fælde for morderen med sig selv som offerged. Det mislykkes, men Charles kan ikke længere lade som om han ikke har lugtet lunten. Han får chancen for at snakke med morderen, som viser show more sig at være en fransk modstandshelt Savarin alias Raoul Philippe Humphrey Vicomte de Saint Sabas, som vil hævne sin kones død i Buchenwald.
De udkæmper en nervepirrende duel i mørke og Charles vinder. Savarin vælger at dø fremfor at blive lappet sammen af lægerne blot for at blive hængt, men forinden når han at aflægge tilståelse, så Charles bliver renset for al mistanke.

Lidt utroværdigt plot, men værd at godtage for at få resten af historien med show less