title: Embassy (novel)
text: # Embassy (novel)
  
  Embassy is a 1969 spy thriller novel by a British writer named Stephen Coulter. A top Soviet official defects to the West and takes shelter in the American Embassy in Paris.
  
  In 1972 the novel was adapted into a film of the same title directed by Gordon Hessler starring Richard Roundtree and Ray Milland.
  
  