5/22/2023 0 Comments Eye of the needle novelSeveral soldiers try to arrest Faber, but he kills them with his stiletto. Faber takes photos of a huge military base constructed only to look real from the air and discovers it's fake. One identifies Faber from a photo of him as a young army officer.įaber is told by Berlin to investigate whether FUSAG is real or not. They then interview Faber's fellow tenants from 1940. They connect the landlady's murder to Faber by him having used his 'needle' during the transmission. They start with the interrupted broadcast and his codename Die Nadel. A widowed history professor, Godliman, and an ex-policeman, Bloggs, are employed by MI5 to catch him. Meanwhile, British Intelligence has executed or recruited all German spies except Faber. Unable to fly during the Battle of Britain, David grows embittered and he and Lucy retire to the isolated Storm Island (fictitious) off the east coast of Scotland. Garden will eventually realise that he was using a transmitter and that he is a spy, so he kills her with his stiletto, then resumes his transmission.ĭavid, a trainee RAF pilot, and his bride Lucy are on their honeymoon when they're involved in a car crash. Faber is halfway through radioing this information to Berlin when his widowed landlady stumbles into his room hoping for intimacy. In 1940, Henry Faber, a German spy nicknamed 'die Nadel' ('The Needle') due to his trademark weapon being a stiletto, is working at a London railway depot, collecting information on troop movements.
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