There Goes Your Money Montgomery

Western world than for the Eastern” (because, if the Soviets catch you, “they just shoot you, and what’s much worse they torture you beforehand”), Schell obviously prefers not to work for the Communists, though he maintains contacts with them.

Mr. Aldanov displays remarkable powers of observation, analysis and imagination, especially in presenting Schell around whom most of the action and interest revolve. This modern Count Saint-Germain with the “strangler’s hands” is both scoundrel and gentleman, magnificently false and humbly honest, ruthless and kind.

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Western world than for the Eastern” (because, if the Soviets catch you, “they just shoot you, and what’s much worse they torture you beforehand”), Schell obviously prefers not to work for the Communists, though he maintains contacts with them.

Mr. Aldanov displays remarkable powers of observation, analysis and imagination, especially in presenting Schell around whom most of the action and interest revolve. This modern Count Saint-Germain with the “strangler’s hands” is both scoundrel and gentleman, magnificently false and humbly honest, ruthless and kind.