I, Said the Spy

I, Said the Spy
Derek Lambert

A classic Cold War spy story from the bestselling thriller writer Derek Lambert.

Each year a nucleus of the wealthiest and most influential members of the Western world meet to discuss the future of the world’s superpowers at a secret conference called Bilderberg.

A glamorous millionaire just sighting loneliness from the foothills of middle age … a French industrialist whose wealth matches his masochism and meanness … a whizz-kid of the seventies conducting a life-long affair with diamonds, these are just three of the Bilderbergers who have grown to confuse position with invulnerability. A mistake which could prove lethal when a crazed assassin is on the loose…

‘Lambert certainly keeps the action moving with surprise plot twists thrown in every now and again to unsettle the reader’

Liverpool Daily Post

‘Could put ideas into the head of many a spy’

Sunday Telegraph

‘An exciting novel’

Derby Evening Telegraph

‘A demanding but entirely satisfying read’

Coventry Evening Telegraph

I, SAID THE SPY

Derek Lambert

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First published in Great Britain by Arlington Books (Publishers) Ltd 1980

Copyright © Derek Lambert 1980

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Bilderberg is the most top-secret conference in the world. Most people know nothing of its existence. The few who do know little more than that Bilderberg, held each year, is attended by one hundred or so of the richest and most powerful people in the western world, whose decisions determine future world policy. Bilderberg is organised each year by a steering committee based at The Hague, in Holland. Invitations to attend a conference are highly coveted and are extended only to heads of state, leading politicians, top bankers and major industrialists; those who influence the daily lives of millions of people. Yet their debates are unreported in the world’s press. Nothing at all of the events at Bilderberg has ever got through the strict security curtain which shields the conference from the outside world.

UNTIL NOW

DEDICATION (#ulink_6794f425-df82-5d09-a54b-367c0ad848e5)

For my not-so-grey eminence – Desmond Elliott

EPIGRAPH (#ulink_bb141d47-7582-550d-bbca-e3f7fe43cb6b)

‘The world is governed by very different

personages from what is imagined by those who

are not behind the scenes.’

Benjamin Disraeli

CONTENTS

Cover (#ue07b3ba8-4904-50a4-9bf2-750f9e2a5402)

Title Page (#u48110c9d-0cac-58ff-b396-492d36e2dead)

Copyright (#ulink_a8b205dc-61d2-519b-b58e-1e7c267014ac)

Dedication (#ulink_dc88b565-6a01-5d16-824f-c24812c6651e)

Epigraph (#ulink_abeb3373-97b3-5d01-a3a5-8a242ea8b4b5)

Author’s Note (#ulink_dc83429d-7b99-5f61-81fb-6d978feaadde)

Part One (#ulink_c13531ae-5e1a-57a8-b7d6-aa7209e0d98c)

Chapter: I (#ulink_11ffdc27-d884-548e-8502-9ae8d2c60287)

Chapter: II (#ulink_ac73dba3-a9ad-58a5-a992-40f929664281)