Mask of Memory Author:Victor Canning Bernard Tucker is the British government's most valued and talented secret agent. A cool, hard character whose life has become synonymous with espionage trickery, Tucker lives in his own clandestine world -- with a hidden marriage, several lovers, and a history of shady business with an amateur spy named Billy Ankers. It is only after Tucker... more »'s mysterious death that these separate lives become intertwined. Only then do his longtime co-workers, Warboys, Quint, and Lassiter, discover how relevant his surreptitious "other: life is to the private workings of his trade.
His widow, Margaret, unknowingly provides the key to the whereabouts of critical classified documents -- documents that answer the mystery behind Tucker's two lives. In The Mask of Memory, the lives of even the most carefree of observers become entangled with potentially deadly government deeds.« less