23 MARCH 1956, Page 22

THE FACELESS ONES. By Lindsay Hardy. (Robert Hale, 9s. 6d.)

Admirably straightforward, admirably unpretentious, admirably fast-moving cold-war thriller, with a reasonably true-to-life British agent chasing the papers through both Berlins—the tatty night clubs of the Kurftlrstendamm and the bleak new world of the Stalinallee. No strain on the intelligence, but doesn't insult it, either.