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To Catch A Rat by Walter Harris

Published by Futura Publications in 1977, this was the third New Avengers paperback.  It was published in the USA by our good friends at Berkeley Medallion in December, 1978.  The story is based on the screenplay for the TV episode, To Catch A Rat, which was written by Terence Feeley.  There was also a hardcover edition of this published in the UK.

From the back cover of the UK edition:

VENGEANCE TRAIL

THE WHITE RAT:
a traitor hidden somewhere in the highest echelons of British Intelligence, prepared to send colleague after colleague to a terrible death in the Soviet Union - until his last victim - a man who did not die but, after years in a mental home, recovered enough to enlist some formidable allies and set out on a mission of vengeance.
THE NEW AVENGERS
John Steed, Mike Gambit, and their lethal, beautiful assistant, Purdey promised that whatever the cost they would help to identify, find and destroy the traitor known only as the White Rat.
TO CATCH A RAT
The third in a thrilling series of novels based on the TV series, THE NEW AVENGERS, starring Patrick Macnee, Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt.

Price 60p.

From the back cover of the US edition:

CODE NAME:  WHITE RAT
SUBJECT:  DOUBLE AGENT
TARGET:  BRITISH INTELLIGENCE!

A BBC broadcast is interrupted by the ghostly voice of an agent, presumed dead five years ago, with a most disturbing message: there is a "deep double" agent  at work in the highest level of Her Majesty's intelligence elite!   He has one more hit to make; but two expert trouble-makers - John Steed and his lethal and beautiful partner, Purdey - are out to see that he doesn't earn his East German pension!

Price $1.50

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