A Gentleman or a Spy – Stefan du Plooy

A5, 330p.

David Bennet, fronting as a university professor, does covert work for M16. Discovering a secret manuscript in his recently deceased father’s attic, which reveals startling facts about his father’s past, a legacy reaching back to the Middle Ages, David decides to finish the story. On an assignment in East Germany, he encounters Ilze Kramer, who hid him from German occupation forces, in France during WW11. A chance meeting with Jeannie Crawford, the mirror image of the heroine in the manuscript, begins the unravelling of his father’s secret and the manuscript’s medieval tale. Will David and Ilze survive the dangerous world of espionage, and how will the events unfolding from the manuscript, affect him and Jeannie?