| From the back cover of 6th Bantam printing: 'The man screamed, his arms stretched wide as he tumbled down from the fifth floor window. University professor Robert Branch saw his best friend take the fall, heard his skull hit the pavement. The cops called it suicide. Branch insisted it was murder. He knew the killer was part of a spy ring operating on campus. He knew what military secrets they wanted. Too bad nobody believed his story. Because now Branch was marked for death, and he knew that his executioner would be one of three people: a bisexual psychopath, a respected educator...or the woman he loved.' |
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| Trivia: Millar wrote The Dark Tunnel in one month at Ann Arbor in 1943, while completing his course requirements for his doctorate. The New York Times Book Review described it as 'a thrilling story told with consumate skill'. Since the narrator is an english professor, the writing is smooth and literary - and Millar has later remarked that sections of his first two novels were written in loose blank verse! | |
