Clap hands, here comes Charlie by Brian Freemantle

The Charlie of the title is Charles Muffin, a spy for British Intelligence, who was to have been sacrficed in a operation into Russia. Charlie did not like that, and outfoxed his employers. That was in a previous story. In this, the sequel, Intelligence and the CIA joins forces to eliminate Charlie — but they waste time because they want to see him squirm, and he escapes again.

A rather interesting read, a mix of farce, comedy, clever tricks and tragedy. Very touchingly it describes the kind of life that the wife of a spy must go through.