Another Kind of War — D. Edward Bradley

The time: those grey years following the Second World War. Where it happens: in West Germany, Austria, at a castle in Czechoslovakia and in the UK. The story: Trooper Harry Lockwood is serving the last nine months of his National Service in the 5th Royal Tank Regiment in Germany. Harry's best friend from school days, known as ‘the Captain,' is also in Germany. He has signed on as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps. The two meet for a skiing holiday at a leave center in Austria. There, the Captain is drugged and kidnapped by a mysterious blond man and his obnoxious female assistant. They take him across the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia, where he is imprisoned in a strange castle. What do they want him for? Will he be executed or released? The story takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of excitement and romance from a bleak Cold War Europe to Britain, and back again.