Hammer To Fall, Lawton - B+

                                 This novel is set in the 60's, but like the previous one, harkens back to Berlin in the late 1940's, when Joe Holderness and a few other Brits, a Yank, a German and a few Russians were 'scheibers', running the black market. Joe and Kostya meet up in Finland, and then again in Prague. Most of the action is in Czechoslovakia during 1968. And once again, the final scene is set on a bridge crossing between the American sector and East Berlin late at night. There's always fog and limited lighting in Cold War meetings like this. An inadvertent shot rings out, and the ending may lead to the next book in the series, or this may be the end.