Drink to yesterday

by Manning Coles

First published 1940 · 270 pages

About this book

The story of an English spy in Germany during the First World War. The spy is an young man with a gift for languages who joins the army against his family's wishes. His gift is discovered and he is sent into the enemy country. A series of remarkable adventures, including the destruction of a zeppelin and the necessary murder of a scientist, make the book thrilling. Additional interest is added by his relationships with a German intelligence officer and with a young woman whose tragic death will ultimately prove his undoing.

  • Fiction
  • Intelligence service
  • Intelligence officers
  • Espionage/Intrigue
  • Great britain, fiction
  • Fiction, thrillers, espionage

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