Knight Without Armour

Knight Without Armour is a British thriller novel by James Hilton. A British covert agent in Russia frees the daughter of a tsarist minister from a consortium of Bolshevik rebels. Excerpt: «The reception room was on the first floor, overlooking the square, and all its windows were wide open and unshuttered to admit the soft breeze of a September night. He felt an arm slipped into his and guiding him rather than being guided through the plush-curtained archway into the long and rather gloomy corridor that led to the dining-room, Almost simultaneously they both made the same banal remark about the weather, whereupon she laughed and added, with a sort of crystal mockery: „I said it first, Mr. Fothergill.“ He laughed back, but could not think of an answer.»