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Ted Bailey thought his days as an Intelligence Operative were long gone. He certainly wasn’t expecting to be blackmailed back into action, especially not by his own side. But then Bailey is the only person left who ever encountered Berger, the KGB’s most ruthless master-spy.
Berger is running a major operation on US soil and both the CIA and SIS are desperate to track him down. So Bailey returns to the arena of international espionage and finds that little has changed. The spy game is just the same, even after twenty-five years. There’s the same brutality. The same cold fear. The same violence and death. And the same choice of enemies.
‘The best cold war espionage novels never really lose their punch: Allbeury, like le Carré, is a master of the genre.’ – Publishers Weekly
Berger is running a major operation on US soil and both the CIA and SIS are desperate to track him down. So Bailey returns to the arena of international espionage and finds that little has changed. The spy game is just the same, even after twenty-five years. There’s the same brutality. The same cold fear. The same violence and death. And the same choice of enemies.
‘The best cold war espionage novels never really lose their punch: Allbeury, like le Carré, is a master of the genre.’ – Publishers Weekly
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Reviews
A writer of stylish, confident and convincingly detailed spy thrillers.
Allbeury's novels have won a reputation not only for verisimilitude but for crisp, economical narration and high drama...there's no better craftsman.
He is certainly the most skilled narrator of what goes on behind the scenes of the undercover spy world, and - what is so splendid and welcome - he does it all with a superb economy of words.
Ted Allbeury is one of the best half-dozen writers of adventure and spy fiction.
One of the masters of espionage novels.
Ted Allbeury is one of our best spy thriller writers, quiet, thoughtful and menacingly compelling.
A truly classic writer of espionage fiction.
Mr Allbeury is a writer of espionage novels that soar far above the genre. - New Yorker
The most consistently inventive of our novelists of espionage, the one that other thriller writers point to as the finest craftsman among them.
Certain things are constants, and Ted Allbeury is one. book after book, the prolific British writer of espionage tales has maintained a superior level. - New York Times
The best cold war espionage novels never really lose their punch: Allbeury, like le Carré, is a master of the genre.