| A Sort of Traitors | |
| Author: | Nigel Balchin |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Publisher: | Collins |
| Release Date: | 1949 |
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A Sort of Traitors is a 1949 thriller novel by the British writer Nigel Balchin. The title is taken from Shakespeare's Richard II Act 4, scene 1 "Mine eyes are full of tears, I cannot see; And yet salt water blinds them not so much But they can see a sort of traitors here."
A British biological research team had spent years developing new methods of controlling epidemics. HM Government minister refuses to let them publish their findings that could benefit mankind in case a foreign power uses it for biological warfare.
In 1960 it was made into a film Suspect directed by the Boulting Brothers and starring Tony Britton and Virginia Maskell.[1]