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The Reckoning - Hardcover

Allbeury, Ted

 
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Synopsis

Photojournalist Katya and political journalist Max have been lovers for a long time, but what she does not realise is that he is also an undercover agent for MI6, and things go horribly wrong as the Soviet bloc begins to disintegrate in the late 1980s. From the author of BEYOND THE SILENCE, THE LANTERN NETWORK and AID AND COMFORT.

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Review

Allbeury's people are real in the sense that Greene's or Maugham's are (H R F Keating, The Times)

The most consistently inventive of our novelists of espionage, the one other thriller writers point to as the finest craftsman among them (Guardian)

No one since le Carre has mapped the lonely lunar landscape of espionage betten than Allbeury (Observer)

The strength of Allbeury's novels is in his understanding of what makes spies and their masters tick. His characters, regardless of which side they're on, are always humanely portrayed and utterly plausible (Scotsman)

The doyen of contemporary spy writers (Daily Telegraph)

Book Description

An intriguing contemporary espionage thriller from one of the masters of the genre

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