Game Without Rules Author:Michael Gilbert Mr. Calder's war service was still partly classified; his special interests were small arms and the cello, and he lived in The Cottage in Kent with a magnificent golden deerhound named Rasselas. — Mr. Behrens, whose war service was also still classified, was a neighbor of Mr. Calder's. Mr. Behrens lived with his aunt in the Old Rectory. His speci... more »al interest was beekeeping. Both men had a habit of disappearing. They were quiet men. So quiet that almost no one knew they were professional agents working for the External Branch of the Joint Services Standing Intelligence Committee...
A few of their co-workers were killed by the enemy; others took their own lives; half a dozen were living in quiet country houses where the furniture was fixed to the floors and the inmates ate with plastic knives and forks and were shaved by a resident barber.« less