I, Said the Spy
A classic Cold War spy story from the bestselling thriller writer Derek Lambert.
Each year a nucleus of the wealthiest and most influential members of the Western world meet to discuss the future of the world’s superpowers at a secret conference called Bilderberg.
A glamorous millionaire just sighting loneliness from the foothills of middle age … a French industrialist whose wealth matches his masochism and meanness … a whizz-kid of the seventies conducting a life-long affair with diamonds, these are just three of the Bilderbergers who have grown to confuse position with invulnerability. A mistake which could prove lethal when a crazed assassin is on the loose…
‘Lambert certainly keeps the action moving with surprise plot twists thrown in every now and again to unsettle the reader’
Liverpool Daily Post
‘Could put ideas into the head of many a spy’
Sunday Telegraph
‘An exciting novel’
Derby Evening Telegraph
‘A demanding but entirely satisfying read’
Coventry Evening Telegraph
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I, SAID THE SPY
Derek Lambert
Collins Crime Club
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First published in Great Britain by Arlington Books (Publishers) Ltd 1980
Copyright © Derek Lambert 1980
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Derek Lambert asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Bilderberg is the most top-secret conference in the world. Most people know nothing of its existence. The few who do know little more than that Bilderberg, held each year, is attended by one hundred or so of the richest and most powerful people in the western world, whose decisions determine future world policy. Bilderberg is organised each year by a steering committee based at The Hague, in Holland. Invitations to attend a conference are highly coveted and are extended only to heads of state, leading politicians, top bankers and major industrialists; those who influence the daily lives of millions of people. Yet their debates are unreported in the world’s press. Nothing at all of the events at Bilderberg has ever got through the strict security curtain which shields the conference from the outside world.
UNTIL NOW
For my not-so-grey eminence – Desmond Elliott
‘The world is governed by very different
personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.’
Benjamin Disraeli
CONTENTS
Bilderberg is fact.
Since 1954 key members of the Western Establishment have met annually at a conference named after the venue of their first meeting, the Bilderberg Hotel at Oosterbeek, Holland.
Bilderberg has been accused of both Right and Left Wing machinations; it has been indicted as a cabal of the elite of both Jewry and Masonry. Its deliberations have always been conducted in an atmosphere of obsessive secrecy and therefore the organisers cannot protest too vehemently at the calumny they occasionally attract. What is indisputable is that, once a year, a nucleus of incalculable wealth and power gathers under one roof. Indisputably, too, the future of the Western world, and therefore indirectly the future of the Communist bloc, must to an extent be affected.
The conference and the Château in France in this novel, however, are fictitious, as are the principal characters.
Danzer didn’t look like a spy.
He was too sleek, too assured, too obtrusive.
But who does look like a spy? Anderson pondered as he sat shivering in the back of the battered yellow taxi, on loan from the New York Police Department, waiting for the Swiss financier to emerge from La Guardia Airport.
There was no future in looking like a bank robber if your profession was robbing banks!
For three days Anderson had kept Danzer under surveillance at the Bilderberg conference at Woodstock, Vermont, attended by more than eighty of the richest and most powerful men in the Western world.
Earlier that April morning in 1971, Bilderberg had broken up. Heads of state, politicians, bankers, industrialists, were now dispersing, confident that their deliberations had been secret.
Overconfident.
If Anderson’s calculations were correct, the conference had been attended by three spies. Certainly two – himself and the Englishman, George Prentice, one-time Professor of Economics at Oxford University.
Anderson was ninety per cent certain about Danzer. Well, eighty-five …. The Russians had been trying for seventeen years to penetrate Bilderberg. He had two reasons for believing that with Karl Danzer they had succeeded. Firstly, he was a new recruit to Bilderberg; and secondly, he was the
