PERFECT WITNESS

About the Book

“Why shouldn’t those Baltic provinces stew in their own juice for a while?” says Stalin, not long before dying in offi ce. The President of the Baltic Peoples Republic, Marshal Jurgis Tievas, after an ill-fated visit to socialist Britain, returns to Gdainys to fi nd himself besieged by domestic enemies. Nor is he comforted by being an impostor, the double of the Marshal who was inadvertently killed in Britain. Seven of his entourage know his secret. Now his beloved niece Valija invites two of their British friends, Elizabeth Templeton and Michael Brenan, to stay—who may or may not know the secret.

About the Author

The author of Neighbouring Eyes, Richard Cody, was born in 1929 and grew up in Blackheath, London, England. He attended the Roan School, Greenwich, did National Service in the army and a B.A. and Dip.Ed. at University College, Southampton. From 1953 he lived in the U.S., studying and teaching at Ole Miss (the University of Mississippi) and the University of Minnesota. In 1963, having an MA and PhD, he was appointed Associate Professor of English at Amherst