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One man with three names becomes two men with one
face.
Only death can solve the arithmetic.
Montague was a steel-nerved, quietly brilliant counterespionage
agent. Carmichael was Comarade Slazov's next assignment for
killing. The shadowy Ilse loved a man who called himself Slater.
One of the three would probably have to kill Ilse. Neither Slasov
nor Ilse suspected that the three were one man.
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Published in sixteen editions and seven languages,
and released as the motion picture Double Man starring Yul
Brynner.
Reviews of Legacy of a Spy
"I would nominate Henry S. Maxfield's Legacy of a Spy one of
the finest espionage novels I have ever read. I venture to predict
that you will not put this book down until you have read it through.
Then you will hunger for another novel by Henry S. Maxfield.
"But
the value of this novel is in its depth. First of all, Slater is a
convincing character, a man torn between his desire for a normal life
and the constant tension and distortion of his life. Secondly, it
details the continuing war beneath the surface of at least a nominal
peace, a quiet, interminable conflict without publicity for its
victories and defeats, but nevertheless as dangerous to the
individuals involved as great battles." Robert Kirsch, Los
Angeles Times
"Like the best of Graham Greene and Eric Ambler . . . one of
the best espionage novels ever written." NY Times
"Better than Ian Fleming." Los Angeles Times.
"As far as I'm concerned Maxfield will be a major writer in
these parts." Curt Casewit, Denver Post
"Henry S. Maxfield's Legacy of a Spy is equipped with
a fine set of very sharp hooks: Plausibility - it could have
happened; Style: it is smooth, literate, easy; Convincing human
beings... if they are cut, they bleed." Marsh Maslin of the San
Francisco Call-Bulletin
"I found Legacy of a Spy one of the most fascinating,
authentic, yet dramatically excellent books I have ever read on
espionage and counterintelligence, . . . . Mr. Maxfield has an
unusual facility for creating plausible people and characters against
backgrounds that are completely convincing." F. van Wyck
Mason
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