“Trusted Like The Fox” is a 1948 crime thriller by James Hadley Chase, a British writer who published 95 very popular thrillers.

The main character, Cushman, is not morally ambiguous. He’s just a plain old bad guy, a traitor to the British who went to Nazi Germany during the war and operated a radio show in English for the German cause. He’s such a bad guy that, when the camps were liberated, he murdered someone and stole their identity. Returning to a London, he couldn’t live a quiet life forever and on a lark gets involved with a pickpocket and they end up fleeing to the countryside.

He’s rough, course, nasty, and selfish. The threesome who duel are not complete until they reach a golf club in an estate area. It’s an unusual thriller, particularly since the main characters turn out to be traitors, murderers, and all are slightly nuts.