
Eye of the Needle
#1176 of 8,085 books · #333 in Crime & Thriller
Won the Edgar Award for Best Novel (1979).
His code name was "The Needle." He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence—a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history. But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom—and win the war for the Nazis.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- ISBN-13
- 9781101990247
- Topics
Awards
- Edgar Award for Best NovelWon(1979)
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