Curtain of Fear
Curtain of Fear is a 1953 thriller novel by the British writer Dennis Wheatley. During the early stages of the Cold War, a Czech-born British professor attempts to make his escape from Communist Czechoslovakia across the Iron Curtain into the West. References

Bibliography
 Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015. Williams, Emma & Sheeha, Iman. Deception: An Interdisciplinary Exploration. BRILL,  2019. 1953 British novels
Novels by Dennis Wheatley
Novels set in Czechoslovakia
British thriller novels
Novels set during the Cold War
Hutchinson (publisher) books