Book description
Europe in the Cold War years was a dangerous place for Harold Bronson
and his buddies, draftees commandeered into espionage and
counterintelligence. Their low echelon escapades take them to Berlin,
Ulm, the South of France, and Zurich. Bronson chooses this time of his
life to explore a personal coming out, creating secrets within secrets
in a disapproving military. In his off-time, Bronson paints portraits of
the other denizens of Schloss Issel, earning money for trips and
adventures to Paris and Nice. Always on the edge of life, he taunts the
higher-ups with a light-hearted acceptance of life in the spy world of
1957. Real danger is further off from his circle at the Schloss, but it
is an insistent melody they can always hear. Other books by DOUGLAS
ATWILL, all from Sunstone Press, are “Imperial Yellow,” “The Galisteo
Escarpment” and “Why I Won't Be Going To Lunch Anymore.” Atwill lives in
Santa Fe, painting New Mexico landscapes and gardens from his studio on
the city's Eastside.
