The Cooler by George Markstein (50th Anniversary Limited Edition Paperback)

Description Two decades before the cold war, there was a place where they put spies on ice. First published in 1974, and set in the crucial few days before D-Day, George Markstein’s The Cooler is a gripping World War II spy novel described by the Daily Mirror as “a cracking, bitterly cold thriller about spies who can no longer be trusted.” Although long out of print, The Cooler has now been republished as a limited edition paperback with an introduction by Rick Davy – keeper of the Prisoner hub The Unmutual – and a striking cover by Time Tomorrow. Only 1,000 copies have been published. In the vital few days leading up to D-Day, Captain James Loach, Special Operations Executive, is set to embark on his latest mission, Operation Jester. Then comes the message: Operation Jester has been called off, and all the other participants killed. Suddenly, Loach finds himself assigned to ‘The Cooler’, a station somewhere in the remote Scottish countryside, where spies who know too much are sent. There, he will find that one of his fellow inmates is a highly trained and extremely deadly double-agent. Can Loach find the traitor among the nest of spies, before word of the impending D-Day operation is leaked to the Nazis? A must for any fan of The Prisoner, Danger Man and Markstein himself, The Cooler is only available in this 1,000 copy limited edition and copies are likely to sell fast.