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The Spy in Black

by J. Storer Clouston

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1917
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During the First World War, German naval officer Conrad von Belke is put ashore by submarine on the wild Orkney coast, charged with a covert strike against the British fleet anchored at Scapa Flow. Working through a network of agents and disguises, he finds his careful plan tangled by shifting loyalties and a woman whose real part in the scheme he cannot quite read. Clouston keeps the tension high and the reversals coming, telling much of the story from the enemy's point of view, which gives it an unusual moral edge for wartime fiction. Published in 1917, it later became the basis for the acclaimed 1939 Powell and Pressburger film.

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J. Storer Clouston

Joseph Storer Clouston (1870-1944) was a Scottish novelist and historian with deep roots in Orkney, where much of his fiction is set. He wrote comic novels, notably The Lunatic at Large, alongside spy thrillers and works of Orcadian history, and later served as a county official.

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Book facts

First published
1917
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
148
Language
English
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