The Crouching Beast

It is 1914, but war has not yet broken out. Olivia Dunbar, a young English woman, is working in Germany as a private secretary.

• Grundt, head of German counter-intelligence: the crouching beast of the title.

She obtains secret military information, and becomes entangled in a British secret agent operation, and encounters the terrifying Dr. The Crouching Beast by Valentine Williams is an example of the reluctant spy sub-genre, in which an innocent civilian finds himself caught up in the dangerous game of espionage.

• The twist in this book is that the innocent civilian is a young woman.
• She is also the narrator of the tale.
• Third in the seven book series about the dreaded German Secret Service Chief Dr.
• Adolph Grundt.
• The Crouching Beast is an effective and enjoyable espionage thriller.