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Hambledon, Tommy. Tommy Hambledon was created by “Manning Coles,” the pseudonym of Cyril Henry Coles and Adelaide Frances Manning, and appeared in twenty-six novels from 1940 to 1963, beginning with Drink to Yesterday.

During World War Two Tommy Hambledon works with British Intelligence as a spy inside of Germany. He had been taught how to speak German in school in England, and when he lost his memory due to a war wound he was still accepted by the Germans on the basis of his skill with the language. He recovered his wits but stayed inside Germany as a sleeper, joining the Nazi party and rising through its ranks as “Klaus Lehmann,” the chief of police in Berlin. After the war he joins the Foreign Office and takes on and defeats Communist spies. Hambledon is a pleasant man usually dressing, when not in disguise, like a tourist. He is friendly and easy to talk to, but is quite willing to kill and die for his country.

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