''The Judas Code'' is a 1983

thriller novel Thriller is a genre of fiction, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. ...

by the British writer Derek Lambert.Stone p.405 During the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

in neutral Lisbon, British intelligence work to try and lure

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

and the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

into a vicious attritional war with each other.

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* Nancy-Stephanie Stone. ''A Reader's Guide to the Spy and Thriller Novel''. G.K. Hall, 1997. 1983 British novels Novels by Derek Lambert British thriller novels Novels set in Lisbon Novels set in the 1940s Hamish Hamilton books {{1980s-thriller-novel-stub