"FURIOUS IN ACTION...TAKES US BY THE NECK ON PAGE ONE ANDNEVER LETS GO."--Chicago Sun-TimesWith the Cold War fought and won,British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to ruralEngland and a new life with his alluring young mistress Emma. Butwhen both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival,Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run,searching for his brilliant protege, desperately eluding his formercolleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into thelawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to savewhatever of his life he has left...."IRRESISTIBLE...A sinuous plot,leisurely introduced, whose coils become increasingly constricting.There is crisp, intelligent dialogue, much of it riding anundercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not seehimself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much aswith the forces arrayed against him."--Time"AS THRILLING AS LECARRE GETS...The novel has the heartstop duplicity of A Perfect Spyand some of the outraged honor of The Night Manager and The LittleDrummer Girl."--The Boston Globe"GRIPPING."--The Christian ScienceMonitorA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
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