Charles Thorougood is an agent of MI6 working in London during the Cold War, with a young Soviet assistant. Unexpectedly he learns of a strange legacy left to him by his estranged father, the implications of which are much darker than expected at first. The first novel in a spy trilogy.
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Charles Thorougood is an agent of MI6 working in London during the Cold War, with a young Soviet assistant. Unexpectedly he learns of a strange legacy left to him by his estranged father, the implications of which are much darker than expected at first. The first novel in a spy trilogy.
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Product details

ISBN
9780002259408
Published
2002-07-17
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers; HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Weight
517 gr
Height
222 mm
Width
141 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
320

Author

Biographical note

Alan Judd is the author of A Breed of Heroes, The Devil's Own Work and the biography of Ford Madox Ford. He is currently writing a biography of the founder of MI6, Sir Mansfield Cummings. He joined the Parachute Regiment as a young man, serving all over the world. He went to Oxford University and read theology and, for many years he worked for the Foreign Office until he took early retirement to concentrate on his writing career. He reviews widely in the national press. He is married with a small daughter and lives in Sussex.