A brilliant novel of espionage, love and treason
A Russian actor on the KGB payroll...
A middle aged wife with a fatal sense of guilt...
A seductive Slav beauty, fuel for an ageing diplomat's sexual fantasies...
A severely compromised British ambassador to Moscow who will return to Britain as the Prime Minister's personal advisor...
Their shadowy dance has begun to a tune of betrayal, disillusionment and death, and a nation's fate hangs in the balance.
Remarkably credible...high rarity in espionage fiction, an original plot - The Times
... this absorbing novel, as accomplished as his later work. ... thoroughly engrossing tale... For lovers of spy thrillers, and for Allbeury's fans in particular, it offers an indispensable look backward at the way the world was not so long ago. - Booklist
Ted Allbeury was a lieutenant-colonel in the Intelligence Corps during World War II, and later a successful executive in the fields of marketing, advertising and radio. He began his writing career in the early 1970s and became well known for his espionage novels, but also published one highly-praised general novel, THE CHOICE, and a short story collection, OTHER KINDS OF TREASON. His novels have been published in twenty-three languages, including Russian. He died on 4th December 2005.
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