Nobody Here By That Name

From the Jacket Flap: "A man who doesn't much like John Raven says: 'I don't want you to get this wrong, John, but from what I hear you've been on the rampage ever since you left the police force. Striking terror into the hearts of evildoers: a kind of Captain Midnight.' This is quite a good description of Raven, hero of many of Donald MacKenzie's novels, who is here involved with a killing carried out in England but arranged by US Intelligence Services with the connivance to their English equivalents. It just so happens that a friend of Raven's is maneuvered by these cold, faceless, government agents into carrying out the actual murder...."