One of Us Works for Them

Author's third novel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Jack D. Hunter (born 1921) is an American author and artist, best known for his novel, The Blue Max, which was made into a film of the same name, The Blue Max. Hunter was born in Hamilton, Ohio, on June 4, 1921. Hunter was the son of a paint color evaluator at DuPont; ironically he is color blind. He graduated with BA in journalism from Penn State University in 1943. During World War II he joined the infantry, but when he could not recognize tracer colors he was transferred to counter intelligence in a move that spared him the fate of all others in his infantry class - death on Omaha Beach during D-Day. Because he spoke German (having taught himself and then studied it in college), Hunter was sent to Germany just after the war ended. The Allies had discovered that some high-ranking Nazis had gone underground and were waiting until the political atmosphere settled down, at which point the Nazis would infiltrate the new German government. As a 24-year-old lieutenant, Hunter, disguised as a Lithuanian black marketeer, engineered a sting called 'Operation Nursery' which resulted in the arrest of over 1000 Nazis in a single night. He was awarded the Bronze Star. After the war, he worked in various journalistic capacities, as a public relations executive for Dupont, and as a speech writer in Washington D.C." -- Wikipedia