Arriving in London in search of her uncle, Andrew Korwin, who disappeared when the Nazis took over, Stephanie Ayres soon has MI6 agent Campbell Parker convinced that Korwin might still be alive.
Clive (Frederick William) Egleton was a British author of spy novels.
He enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps in 1945 to train as a tank driver while still underage. He was subsequently commissioned into the South Staffordshire Regiment for whom he served in India, Hong Kong, Germany, Egypt, Cyprus, The Persian Gulf and East Africa. He retired in 1975 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
His novel Seven Days to a Killing was filmed as The Black Windmill, starring Michael Caine. Escape to Athena is a novelization of the 1979 movie of the same name.
Double Deception is a well written spy thriller set in post England in the 1960s, the story revolves around circumstances which date back to the fall of Poland in 1939.