After seeing this for sale, as a used book, over and over, at about the same price as Carola, I was pleased to find that his daughter (Rosana Hart) had released a version on the Kindle, with a brief afterword.

It's an interesting effort, and has many of the hallmarks of Smith's two works of fiction under the alias of Felix C. Forrest, which both have strong references to his early life, and his interesting background. The references to the way the world worked back when this novel was written will become more and more alien, as time passes. I wonder how many people reading this in today's time will recognize and understand the many references to that early postwar era.

It has a certain science fictional feel to it, considering the description of Atomsk and its environs. I'd recommend this work as an effort out of the early beginnings of the cold war, but strongly suggest that a good refresher course in how things were operating in the early post-war years is needed. ( )

A fun book. Not groundbreaking and not a patch on the incredible stories Smith would later write, but a decent espionage novel nonetheless. Prefigured much of the more psychological works of writers like le Carre. ( )

A fun book. Not groundbreaking and not a patch on the incredible stories Smith would later write, but a decent espionage novel nonetheless. Prefigured much of the more psychological works of writers like le Carre. ( )