A 1001 Midnights Review: ADAM HALL – The Quiller Memorandum.

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by George Kelley & Marcia Muller ADAM HALL – The Quiller Memorandum. Simon & Schuster, US, hardcover, 1965. Reprinted many times. Originally titled The Berlin Memorandum in the British first edition, The Quiller Memorandum [Collins, 1965] introduces “shadow executive” Quiller, who works for an agency known only as “the Bureau,” an organization which handles such super-sensitive espionage tasks that officially it does not exist and takes action only when authorized by the prime minister. Quiller’s own expertise is in the area of escapes: He worked as a spy in Nazi Germany, arranging escapes from the concentration camps. Now it is twenty years later. Quiller has finished an assignment in Berlin and is due to return to London for a well-deserved leave. Hours before departure, however. he realizes he is being followed. A man contacts him in a theater and reveals the existence of a large Berlin-based neo-Nazi organization that plans to take over Germany. One of the…