Neither Five Nor Three

After many years away during World War II and the subsequent Allied Occupation of Germany, discharged army officer Paul Haydn returns to his former employer the cultural magazine Trend. His colleague and former fiancée Rona Metford, who broke up with him before he left to the military, is now engaged to Scott Ettley. Despite warnings of a former comrade in intelligence about infiltration of American cultural institutions by communist agents, Haydn initially dismisses it as part of the red scare. However both he and Rona begin to become suspicious of some of Ettley's associates who seem to be take their orders directly from the Soviet Union.

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