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Hollandia, Baarn, 1970. Reprint.  ISBN 90-6045-703-X.  Soft cover, 336 pages.  Very good; some edge and cover wear with some rubs and age toning, reading creases; binding tight.  Erased pencil on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis, American and French intelligence agents are plunged into a maze of Cold War intrigue.  In Paris, 1962, French intelligence chief Andre Devereaux and NATO intelligence chief Michael Nordstrom have uncovered Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms to Cuba.  But when Devereaux reports his findings and nobody acts-and he is targeted in an assassination attempt-he soon realizes he’s tangled in a plot far greater than he first understood.  The two agents, along with a small band of Cuban exiles and Soviet defectors, chase leads around the globe in a quest to save NATO, themselves, and perhaps the world itself.’ (from Wikipedia)