The Man Who Was Saturday

A Cold War spy thriller about a man on the knife-edge between the balance of power and global chaos.

Moscow treats defectors from the West with kid-gloves. That is, until they outlive their usefulness. But the American Robert Calder is different. He defected to Russia with information so explosive that even the iron-clad regime of the Kremlin shook with fear. It has kept him alive. Until now.

With Calder desperate to return to the West, the ruthless and scheming Spandarian is placed on his trail, a KGB chief with a mind as sharp as the cold steel of an ice pick. And as a back-up they unleash Tokarev, a professional assassin who kills for pleasure…

‘A white-knuckle number … Lambert produces straight-ahead, foot-to-the-floor excitement’ New York Times

‘Certainly puts Lambert up there with today’s top suspense writers’ Book Browsing

‘Mr Lambert’s Moscow experience comes chillingly through’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Lambert is at the top of the class. This terrific novel puts him in a league with the best espionage writers’ United Press International

‘Another winner’ Pittsburgh Press

‘Splendid stuff. Mr Lambert’s scenes have the clear reality of a Moscow winter, his people are three-dimensional and affecting and best of all he spins a fast story’ Baltimore Sun

Reviews

‘Certainly puts Lambert up there with today’s top suspense writers’ Book Browsing

‘Mr Lambert’s Moscow experience comes chillingly through’ Sunday Telegraph

‘This terrific novel puts Lambert in a league with the best espionage writers of the day’ United Press International

‘Another winner’ Pittsburgh Press

‘Lambert is at the top of the class’ UPI

‘Splendid stuff. Mr Lambert’s scenes have the clear reality of a Moscow winter, his people are three-dimensional and affecting and best of all he spins a fast story’ Baltimore Sun

‘A white-knuckle number … Lambert produces straight-ahead, foot-to-the-floor excitement’ New York, New York

‘Superior espionage fiction’ Waterbury Ct. Republican

About the author

Derek Lambert was born in 1929, and served in the RAF for two and a half years, before becoming a foreign correspondent, travelling the world to exotic locations that later inspired his novels. His travels gave him first-hand knowledge of his material and it was his authentic tales of espionage that made him a household name and bestselling author. He spent the later years of his life in Spain, where he died in 2001 at the age of 71.