"FURIOUS IN ACTION...TAKES US BY THE NECK ON PAGE ONE AND NEVER LETS
GO."
--Chicago Sun-Times
With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts
early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young
mistress Emma. But when both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and
lifelong rival, Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the
run, searching for his brilliant proté gé , desperately eluding his
former colleagues, in a frantic journey acros Europe and into the
lawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to save
whatever 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 an undercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not
see himself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much as
with the forces arrayed against him."
--Time
"AS THRILLING AS LE CARRÉ GETS...The novel has the heartstop duplicity
of A Perfect Spy and some of the outraged honor of The Night Manager and
The Little Drummer Girl."
--The Boston Globe
"GRIPPING."
--The Christian Science Monitor
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
