It’s 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin’s Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy is.
As Europe heads towards war, treason is in the air. British spymasters know there is one Soviet agent in their ranks, codenamed Agent ‘Archie’, and there’s a frantic search to find them. What they don’t know is that he is not the only traitor.
The life of Charles Cooper, a young British writer travelling Europe to research his novel, is about to change for ever…
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As much as I truly love a spy / espionage novel, this one just did not gel with me and I found the character of Charles Cooper aka "Bertie" rather .... grating.
I just did not like him from the start and as such found the narrative rather forced to get the reader to believe that this person would make / be a suitable agent. Many pre-Cold War agents were drawn from the upper echelons of British society or were "approached" at university; and yet this character just did not sit right with me - especially as an agent sent into Stalinist Russia!. As such, I failed to become invested in the narrative and could not wait for tome to end. I will not be pursuing any further books in the series.
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