Helen MacInnes

When a penniless undergraduate and the daughter of a wealthy family fall in love, the odds are against them. But this draws them closer than a love more easily won.

A young woman escapes from Czechoslovakia and the clutches of her ruthless ex-husband, an officer in the secret police. Soon she realises that she has been allowed to defect, in the hope that she will lead the Communists to her father, a writer in hi

British airman Peter Lennox, a prisoner of war in Italy, becomes involved in working with the underground as they prepare for an American invasion of the Brenner Pass.