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Vienna Spies
In the final months of the war British intelligence expects the Soviet Union to dominate Austria unless it can establish its own political and espionage influence in Vienna. Major Edgar sends two agents into the city to locate an Austrian political figure and win him to the British side, while a Soviet spymaster pursues the same objective.
The agents and intelligence contest are fictional, but the novel is set against the Soviet advance into Austria and the capture of Vienna in spring 1945. Gerlis uses the collapse of Nazi control and uncertainty about the post-war settlement to shift the Spy Masters series from wartime intelligence towards the emerging Cold War.
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