The Garden of Weapons
In a desperate bid to save his top spy network, Herbie Kruger goes back over the Berlin Wall…
When a high-ranking KGB officer commits suicide, Big Herbie Kruger – first introduced in The Nostradamus Traitor – mounts a perilous operation to uncover the double agent before he or she destroys Kruger’s ‘Telegraph Boys’ in East Berlin. Against orders, Britain’s German-born spymaster offers himself to the Soviets.
But while Kruger hunts his quarry – and the KGB close in – he also makes a shattering journey into his own past…
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John Gardner
John Edmund Gardner was a British novelist. He was born in the village of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland as the son of a clergyman. He briefly attended Cottham’s Preparatory School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1931, and after the family had moved to Wantage in Berkshire in 1933, King Alfred’s School 1934–1943. He joined the Home Guard at the start of the Second World War and in 1943 the Royal Marines. He left the army four years later as his father wanted him to read theology. He earned his BA at St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1950 and completed his degree at Oxford. Gardner was ordained into the Anglican Church in 1953.
Herbie Kruger
Herbie Kruger consists of five books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

