Remarkable account by an Australian woman of her battle against the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and an inside view of various spy scandals in Australia including Croatian terrorists and the disappearance of Harold Holt.Catherine Robina Dalton (1922-2009) was a daughter of Robert Graves, who worked as a WAAF radar-operator before marrying nuclear scientist Clifford Dalton. In “Without Hardware”, far from accepting the fact of the cancer that killed her husband in 1961, she alleged that her husband was murdered, claiming that the Bogle-Chandler murders were intended to prevent Bogle, a friend of Dalton\'s, from investigating her husband\'s death. Catherine considered that her husband subjected his family to a \"regime of parsimony and neglect\", and claimed after his death that, as early as 1955, she had detected what she considered his \"schizophrenic behaviour\", leading to \"caprice and violence\" in his private life in stark contrast to the admirable man his colleagues considered him to be. However, she refused to divorce or leave Dalton, attributing his illness to poisoning by \"malevolent elements of the intelligence community\".Our book is in very nice condition, its paper covers showing only minor signs of age or wear, though a little tanned overall. A small price sticker at the bottom R/H corner of the front cover. The binding is firm with no loose pages, and all pages are clean, though browned. A separate hand-written note dated 1985 states that the author is ‘crazy probably, but fascinating too’.