DARK BLOOD, DARK TERROR by Cleeve, Brian

New York 1965, Random House, first US edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, FINE/FINE CONDITION, 217 pages....................................................... They didn't look like desperate criminals, the thin, white, sickly man and the beautiful pale-brown girl. Yet Lieutenant Naude of the South African Special Branch thus described them and was able to borrow the services of Sean Ryan from a special branch of English Intelligence to track them down in London and turn them over to his tender mercies......................................................... Michael Miller, the lieutenant said—and he identified him as a "Jew boy"—was a fund raiser for a group of liberals trying to help South African natives. The girl was a "Sheila," colored of course, with whom he'd run off.Lieutenant Naude was an enormous, powerful man with a roaring voice and eyes cold as chips of brown glass. From the beginning Sean was uneasy in his presence, mistrusted him completely, strongly rejected the order to help him. And then Sean met Marijke, the soft, lovely distraught girl—the Sheila whom he was supposed to track down.What happens in this struggle between emotion and duty makes for a driving, compelling, frightening, provocative and deeply affecting tale of murder, violence and courage.