''The Man Who Was Saturday'' is a 1985

thriller novel Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving their audiences heightened feelings of suspe ...

by the British writer Derek Lambert. An American defector to the Soviet Union schemes to return home against the best efforts of the

KGB The Committee for State Security (, ), abbreviated as KGB (, ; ) was the main security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991. It was the direct successor of preceding Soviet secret police agencies including the Cheka, Joint State Polit ...

.Stone p.433

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* Nancy-Stephanie Stone. ''A Reader's Guide to the Spy and Thriller Novel''. G.K. Hall, 1997. 1985 British novels Novels by Derek Lambert British thriller novels Hamish Hamilton books Stein and Day books {{1980s-thriller-novel-stub