End of Spies

Characters

Principal characters:

Richard Prince British intelligence agent, detective superintendent

Hanne Jakobsen Danish police officer, British agent. Married to Richard Prince

Tom Gilbey Senior MI6 officer, London

Sir Roland Pearson Downing Street intelligence adviser

Kommissar Iosif Leonid Gurevich NKGB officer

Friedrich Steiner Gestapo officer, aka ‘the Ferret’,

Wolfgang Steiner Senior Nazi official, father of Friedrich

Other characters:

The Admiral British Nazi sympathiser

Major Tom Barrow US Counter Intelligence Corps, Munich

Bartholomew MI5 officer

Kenneth Bemrose British Liaison Office & MI6, Berlin

Benoît Officer at Fresnes prison near Paris

Roland Bentley Senior MI6 officer, London

Hauptsturmführer Klaus Böhme SS Officer, Berlin

Martin Bormann Head of the Nazi Part Chancellery, Berlin

Mr Bourne Owner of art gallery, London

Branka Slovenian partisan

Christine Butler SOE agent, Dijon (Thérèse Dufour)

Myrtle Carter British Nazi sympathiser

Peter Dean SOE agent, Enschede (Pieter de Vries)

Edvard Slovenian partisan

Frau Egger Housekeeper in Villach, Austria

Evans Field Security Section, Trieste

Charles Falmer Courier in Frankfurt

Kapitan Leonid Fyodorov NKVD officer, Berlin

Charles Girard Aka Alphonse Schweitzer, Gestapo Paris

Giuseppe port worker in Trieste

Hon. Hugh Harper Senior MI5 officer, London

Captain Wilf Hart Field Security Section, Austria

Paul Hoffman Berlin detective

Joseph Jenkins Intelligence officer, US Embassy, London

Jožef Slovenian partisan

Kiselyov Soviet officer at Hohenschönhausen prison

Willi Kühn Man in Berlin

Major Charles Lean F Section, SOE

Anna Lefebvre Prisoner at Fresnes near Paris

Ludwig Soviet agent working for Gurevich

Marguerite Former resistance fighter, Paris

Marija Slovenian partisan

Frieda Mooren (Julius) Resistance fighter, Enschede

Frau Moser farmer in Bavaria

Orlov Soviet officer at Hohenschönhausen prison

Edward Palmer (Agent Milton) Escaping British Nazi

Kenneth Plant SOE radio operator, Dijon (Hervé)

Franz Rauter former German intelligence officer

Mr Ridgeway Man at art gallery, London

Tim Sorensen US Counter Intelligence Corps officer

Captain Christopher Stephens F Section, SOE

Major Laurie Stewart Field Security Section, Austria

Ulrich Nazi in Frankfurt

Wilson MI6 officer, Paris

Frau Winkler Shopkeeper in Villach, Austria

Prologue

Lincoln, England, September 1945

Richard Prince stood nervously in the shadow of the Gothic splendour of Lincoln Cathedral, a flurry of leaves gathering around his feet in a premature burst of autumn. He glanced around uncomfortably and retreated to the canopy of the Judgement Porch, Jesus Christ and the angels looking down on him in a quizzical manner as if wondering what he was up to. He didn’t blame them. He wondered that too.

He’d never particularly liked the cathedral: it held a sense of foreboding and he’d always felt that for a place of worship it was too replete with imagery of the devil. As a small child he’d been told the cathedral’s grounds had been used as mass burial pits for the city’s victims of the Black Death, and the fear instilled then had lasted into adulthood. As a young police constable, he’d dreaded the night-time beat that took him anywhere near the darkened mass of the cathedral.