The Sabre Squadron

London: Anthony Blond, 1966.

First Edition. Hardback cloth in the excellent, unclipped dust-jacket. The third title in author's acclaimed Alms for Oblivion sequence of ten novels. "A muted description of foreign intrigue, set in Germany in 1952. Its anti-hero, slight, moralistic Daniel Mond, is a brilliant mathematician sent from Cambridge to Gottingen to work for his doctorate. He becomes involved with the deciphering the of complex posthumous papers of Herr Doktor Dortmund -- mysterious symbols which might lead to some devastating effects. The Sabre Squadron is the group of upper class British soldiers who occupy Gottingen with whom Daniel becomes inextricably involved. There's caustic intrigue in this tale of a man destroyed by his own weakness but the book seems limited by its quiet tone of voice and British inflection", - Kirkus.