THE INTERCOM AFFAIR

by Eric Ambler ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 14, 1969

Impresario Ambler comes up with a cool one in which twoaging employees of NATO who have grown sadly wiser, increasingly disaffected and more overlooked through theyears, devise an unusual money-making scheme. They buy up thesuper-patriot paper, Intercom, and proceed to leak NATO'ssecond grade secrets in inserts known as SESAME. All of thisto the befuddlement and bemusement of Intercom's editor, oneCarter who has never met his new employers and who has nonotion of the real nature of the SESAME facts and figures.Carter, who is not used to taking either the paper or himselfseriously, suddenly finds himself the hottest property intown...which is security minded Geneva, Switzerland. With theKGB and the CIA tripping over each other in their attempts toclose SESAME. Written after the fact, it's an intriguingaffair to remember.

Pub Date: Sept. 14, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Atheneum

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1969

Categories: FICTION