Scotland Yard’s Inspector Troy returns in a Cold War spy thriller
hailed as “stylish, sophisticated, suspenseful . . . A fictional
tour de force” (Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post). In April
1956, at the height of the Cold War, Khrushchev and Bulganin, leaders
of the Soviet Union, are in Britain on an official visit. Chief
Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard is assigned to be Khrushchev’s
bodyguard and to spy on him. Soon after, a Royal Navy diver is found
dead and mutilated beyond recognition in Portsmouth Harbor. Troy
embarks on an investigation that takes him to the rotten heart of MI6,
to the distant days of his childhood, and into the dangerous arms of
an old flame. “If Troy is the character at the heart of this
novel, its soul is England as it was during the Cold War years, a
country fueled by paranoia and espionage, overrun with agents and
counter-agents, caught up, as Troy says, in ‘an age that specialized
in thinking the unthinkable.’” —Anne Stephenson, USA Today
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ISBN
9780802199492
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Atlantic Monthly Press (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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