Delicate Ape

Diplomatic corps man Piers Hunt watches the glittering lights of Broadway from his Hotel Astor room. The German girl''s mocking voice returns to his mind yet again: ''More melodrama, Piers?'' Yes: this time it''s ''more melodrama'', but with a vengeance.

In New York incognito, only Piers knows that his superior, Samuel Anstruther, has been murdered, possibly to get him out of the way of a plan to withdraw a police force that governs post-Second World War Germany. Rumours abound that the Germans might be allowed free reign once again.

Piers is a man of peace, but he may have to get his hands dirty if he doesn''t want to be murdered - before telling the world what Anstruther knew . . .