Acknowledgments -- Note of Orthography -- 1. Balkan background -- 2. Retrospective biography I the making of an agent : Major Mostyn Davies -- 3. Retrospective biography II : (i) Dragon school to Winchester : Frank Thompson, shades of T. E. Lawrence z : (ii) New College, Oxford : (iii) Undergraduates at War -- 4. Parachutist for 'Special Duties' -- 5. With the Partisans in Macedonia -- 6. Tserna Trava : topography of resistance -- 7. The British mission arrives : the mountain victory -- 8. Enemy reprisals -- 9. The augmented mission of 'Mulligatawny' -- 10. Spring offensive -- 11. Defence in Balkan style -- 12. Extrication -- 13. At Tempo's Headquarters : Partisan warfare, ambushes and reprisals -- 14. Retrospective biography III Sergeant of Signals : Kenneth Scott -- 15. Out of the soup into 'Claridges -- 16. On the run across encirclement -- 17. A parrallel mission : Kenneth Syers -- 18. Thompson's private army : the long march begins -- 19. The Anti-communist policeman : a tangle of agents -- 20. On the Bulgarian mountains -- 21. Ambush at Batulia -- 22. The trap -- 23. 'Prisoners of War' -- 24. The faked trial : agent murders agent -- 25. Working 'Under Gestapo Orders' -- 26. Liberation Day -- 27. Retribution -- 28. Left-wing double agent against right-wing double agent : Kim Philby versus Geshev.