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Classics of espionage 

The Serpent Sleeping was hailed by Donald Mc Cormick in who’s who in Spy Fiction as ‘one of the most important of the genre and, indeed, should be compulsory reading for anyone making a study pof this type of Fiction’.
The novel set in France in the days immediately after the Normandy landings, offers a compelling story of counter-espionage work. In the late summer of 1944, the euphoria of the liberation of France is quickly overshadowed by the hunt for Nazi collaborators. Into this fractured world of physical and human wreckage come the novel’s central characters, a young American officer, Johnny Phillips, whose innocence and moral outlook are severely tested by the pressures of spy hunting, and a French woman, Therese Bouliard, who returns to her native city of Cherbourg only to find herself accused of being a spy for the Germans. Driving events is Phillips’ superior, the relentless and ambitious Captain Bruce Weiller, an American Machiavelli to Phillips’ innocent abroad.
Weismiller’s book is lent authenticity by his poet’s skill, his careful reconstruction of the atmosphere of wartime France, and by his own experience as an American intelligence officer engaged in counter- espionage for the Office of Strategic Service in France. The Serpent Sleeping is a classical novel of counter-espionage, a careful dissection of human nature, and a troubling study of the American character.
 

In the late summer of 1944 France is liberated, and the hunt for Nazi collaborators begins. The young American officer, Johnny Phillips finds his moral outlook severely tested by the pressures of spy hunting, and Therese Bouilard finds herself accused of spying for the Germans. - from Amzon 

Contents
Sunday, August 27, 1944…………………………………....... P. 9
1. Chapter I……………………………………………………….. P. 11
Monday, August 28, 1944…………………………………….. P. 25
2. Chapter II …………………………………………………….. P. 27
3. Chapter III…………………………………………………….. P. 40
4. Chapter IV……………………………………………………. P. 51
5. Chapter V……………………………………………… ……… P. 67
6. Chapter VI……………………………………………………… P .78
7. Chapter VII…………………………………………… ………. P. 101
8. Chapter VIII…………………………………………………….. P. 110
9. Chapter IX………………………………………................ P. 132
Tuesday, August 29, 1944…………………………………….. P. 157
10. Chapter X…………………………………………………… …… P. 159
11. Chapter XI………………………………………………. ……….. P. 169
12. Chapter XII……………………………………………………… P. 190
13. Chapter XIII……………………………………………………… P. 205
Wednesday, August 30, 1944…………………………………… P. 217
14. Chapter XIV ……………………………………………………. P. 219
15. Chapter XV………………………………………………………. P. 253
16. Chapter XVI……………………………………………………… P. 191
17. Chapter XVII…………………………………………………… P. 270
Thursday, August 31, 1944……………………………………… P. 299
20. Chapter XVIII…………………………………………………… P. 301
21. Chapter XIX………………………………………………………… P. 312
22. Chapter XX………………………………………………………… P. 326
Friday, September 1, 1944…………………………………………… P. 345
22. Chapter XXI………………………………………………………… P. 347
Epilogue: Serpent’s Progress……………………………………………. P.353