Department Z has been infiltrated by a double agent, and everyone is a suspect.
As once-loyal friends begin to turn on each other, Agent Gordon Craigie is desperate to find the super-spies responsible. Time is running out for Agent Craigie if he wants to save what’s left of Department Z before all trust in the department is destroyed…
A Kind of Prisoner is the 27th book in the Department Z series, and was originally published in 1954.
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