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“turned-thriller writer: Ted

Allbeury. ;
“You come . back trot:
doing something. thinking. *

you showed a great deal of

courage, thinking they'll '

" $ive'you an OBE (Order of

the. British Empire),” the”
“native af “the back streets ,

of Birmingham” said in an
interview. .

; And some " desk. “man

looks ‘aver ‘your’ expense
atcount -and ‘asks; .‘Was it:
necessaryto: take taxis _
everywhere: in. Berlin? ”
What're. your two good feet °
for?’”" cin

 Allbeury, a Montreal to
"tout his. lth novel, Shadow
of” Shadaws, was -

, reminiscing: about- his: days:
-45 & British agent’ in Ger-
many and ‘North’ Africa
uring and shortly:after the -
” Second World War. |
- Though his while hair and

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“gentle manner give him the .

appearance of somebody's
kindly uncle from England

— “T'll soon qualify for free
bus rides’’ — the 64-year-old *

resident ‘of Lam berhurst, ,

- Kent, admits-he killed for

Her Majesty. “
The’ Official Secrets Act
still keeps him from talking

about it but he can say why.
he thinks espionage. fiction

is so’ popular, |

"I think - people - always
liked to read about these

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~-WEDNESDAY ~

things, g going tight back’ ‘to
the Bible and the story ‘of
Samson and Delilah. . }
“Delilah was a sort. of
‘Mata Hari,’ perhaps: the .
’ first, and Samson was the
first man to geta hairent at
the hands of a woman,"
Allbeury says he liked the
late Jan Fleming's “James: |
‘Band novels but, that they
were unrealistic.
-, "James Bond could never.

work today because he's far |

too conspiciots,-to be ef- .

fective, Imagine ‘all the — —

' how do’ you’ eall. them?
Groupies, yes — lini

“the. door: of - MI6 (ea,
Military Intelligence>.22.—.’

Allbeury came ‘late td
“writing, having served after

saw ‘the partial manuscript
and ‘forwarded it ta a

‘literary agent.

The agent sold the un-
finished work, A Choice ‘of

"Enemies, and the largely

autobiographical work was

on the 1973 New York Times
; “10-best-thrillera llat-~

Last year, 12 books later,
“Allbeury. was able to, quit
- the. .public’ ‘relations’ pait-.-
nership and devote himself.
full-time —{o ‘writing.
. Generally he writes in a
little; gardner’s shack -.

outside his hone from, two:

in the-afternoon ‘until early.

the next morning.
Unlike Flerning,, Allbeury

‘¢an never be accused of

, ‘starry-eyed . romanticism.

George Blake, the real-life -
. German affairs expert at. .

ea

‘The=

MI6 who was discovered to
be a “mole” — a long-term
infiltrater —- and ‘Jailed in

‘1961. Blake escaped a year
- later but his fate has: never

been made public. - |;

Allbeury’s novel is set in

the early 18706 and fs about ;
KGB Col. Anatoly Petrov,

the man who “eontrolled"
Blake for Moscow but who
now: defects to Britain and.
- Prepares ‘to expose ‘Soviet
. Spy. metworks-there. ©."

.

Inthe middle of* Big

debriefing, Petrov unex-
pectedly iclamg. up, and the

race is on to fing « out why... ..
offers |
- Allbeury's grim’ guess as to.

“answer.

what happened “ to Blake, ”
still believéd by some: ‘to be

* living ‘in’ Moscow.

“The idea for the book

came when I..saw a. .....
photograph” of (British

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* And, at:"Sugar, Babies’,
~The Star:$pangled |

Blake together at'a cafe in --
Moscow," Allbeury’. said.

“ The? shadows...in...the’..2..-

been faked.’ Since Philby
has been seen in Moscow’ by’
Westerners and is known to

“still -be alive, . Allbeury’s

guess, wes’ that Blake is ;

@. We baught a petfor-.
mance of. Donny-Osmiond's

short: lived- --Broadway.

musical, ''*Little Johnny.

* Jones", and were quite im-
pressed. with the fact that .
athe’ orchestra’ - launched <
“{nto. “The Star-Spangled - ot
* Banner”. -just before’ the’

curtain rose. Next, we saw. ;

’“'Sugar Babies!" and once™
again, the national anthem
was” played. Is this the’.
Start of -a new: patriotic
- end: ine ‘the theater? .— _
P. M. ee

As It's. ‘niferely a. coin-.
cidence. My understanding |

revival of: George M:

-Cohan’s - “Little -Johnny.
Jones" was dictated by the: -
-composer’s::

Banner has been fe featured "

er.

dead” ‘but the Soviets: want}s
people to believe he's still.
alive,

_ is that the incorporation of . 4
: our._nationaFantliem atthe. -

original.