Mills (fictional agent)

Mills is a fictional British secret agent created by Manning O'Brine in the late 1960s. He played roles of varying importance in three novels, Crambo, Mills, and No Earth for Foxes. He is obsessed with detecting and killing Nazi war criminals, as apparently O'Brine himself was. In the last novel, No Earth for Foxes, he is retired, happily married, and running a small hotel in Italy. He temporarily leaves his new life to help capture and personally kill a notorious and unrepentant wartime criminal.

The backcover blurb for the 1976 American paperback edition of No Earth for Foxes says that Mills's creator, Manning O'Brine, was a former British secret agent who killed his first Nazi in Heidelberg in 1937 and his last one in Madagascar in 1950.

Of Mills, a man "who came out of World War II with a blinding obsession: the eradication of Nazi butchers," the New York Times wrote, "You won't always like Mills, you'll find his story drags a bit in spots, but you'll discover both subtly compelling all the same."