This Is For Real by James Hadley Chase

When a woman turns up in Paris with information to sell to the CIA, is it for real? It soon becomes clear that it is, and the CIA aren't the only ones to realize it

Robert Henry Carey was a spy who had defected to Russia and when the news leaked out that he had changed sides again an intensive and ruthless manhunt was on. From the glamour and nerve shattering noise of Paris the hunt switches to the violent and scorched wastelands of Senegal, West Africa.

There is Fat Rossland who doesn't recognize trouble when it sits on his lap:

Girland, a dissatisfied agent who is greedy for money and women:

Dualnay who fatally plays the ends against the middle:

Radnitz, the sinister tycoon with a past:

And finally Malik, the blonde Russian, with whom Girland tangles in a deadly battle of wits:

Printing History

Written by René Brabazon Raymond (1906-1985)

Robert Hale 

1965

The Thriller Book Club
1965