A Choice of Enemies

First edition, first impression (true first). Prelims plus 186pp. In brown cloth covered-boards with gilt lettering to spine. (Boards strong, square and clean, a little rubbed at edges, top text block edge dust marked with some foxing on other text block edges). Internally neat, clean and tight, pages a little off-white at margins. In its original, dust jacket (a little rubbed on corners, bumped at edges, flat crease on front). The dust jacket is now protected in an archival-quality mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of adhesives or tape. Ted Allbeury was a British author, writing mainly espionage fiction. He served as an intelligence office in the Special Operations Executive during the second world war, and is said to have been the only British Secret Agent who parachuted into Nazi Germany during the war and remained there until the Allied armies arrived. He wrote over forty novels, often drawing on his war time experience, some of which were published under the pen names Patrick Kelly and Richard Butler.