Blindfold

An aircraft is forced down on an RAF fighter station in Cyprus. Aboard is a dead dog. And so begins a truly compelling spy story.
The dead dog is so valuable – or so dangerous? – that its guardian refuses to let the Station Commander near it.
This is an intelligently-plotted and well-written tale that draws on the author’s extensive experience. The novel’s hero, Trelawney, is a hulking ex-submariner contemptuous of the top brass and easily roused to violence. The backgrounds against which the story is set – Intelligence headquarters in London, City boardrooms, the Libyan desert and the towns and camps from which an oil exploration company operates – are all sharply observed.
In the twilight world of secret intelligence nothing – and nobody – is ever quite what they may seem at first. In Blindfold, the action and the plot twist, apparently without effort, from one perfectly coherent view to another, totally different and unsuspected, perspective. This is a top-quality spy thriller and a ‘must read’ for fans of Fleming, Le Carré, Deighton et al.
Antony Melville-Ross (1920–1993) won the DSC while serving in submarines during World War II, and became involved in Intelligence activities after the war. Subsequently he worked as an oil company executive in the Middle East, New York and South America. He also wrote six novels, of which Blindfold was the first.