Angel in Peril — Christopher Nicole

In 1949, the Cold War is at its height, the Great Powers only being prevented from shooting at each other by the knowledge that a nuclear exchange would mean the end of civilization. But in the Kremlin, there is an even greater problem: the continued inability of their Security Services to apprehend Anna Fehrbach, Countess von Widerstand, the woman who attempted to end the life of Premier Stalin in 1941, who then made a spectacular and unique escape from the Lubianka Prison and for the next four years, with her combination of remarkable beauty, supreme intelligence, and lethal skills, fought virtually a one-woman war with the Soviets. Reported as having died in the blazing ruins of Berlin in April 1945 she made a spectacular reappearance a year later when she returned into the Russian zone of Germany to reclaim the fortune she had had to abandon there before escaping.

Yet again, although forewarned of her plan, the MGB had been unable to apprehend her, and more lives had been lost. Worse, although she has always been regarded as a Nazi agent, there is evidence in pulling off this latest coup, she had the assistance of the newly formed CIA, suggesting terrifying possibilities.

But since 1946 she has again disappeared. Or has she?