John G. Heller

A penniless Countess poses as a charitable lady, but instead, she leads a ring of unstoppable jewel thieves with a flair for breaking and entering into the houses of her careless rich guests.

When agents in Lord Barnes’s department at the Ministry of Top Secret Information are murdered, all the evidence points to an enemy agent named Kartovski. The snag is that Kartovski was killed by Steed five years earlier.

Simon goes to East Germany to bring back a defector who is planning to trade a list of secret agents in return for the life of his father.