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| The Cold War is nearing its end and the spy vs spy game becomes more and more complicated. This one was a little slow to get into, eventually it gets moving to a satisfying conclusion. | ||||
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| I read years ago along with The Tamarind Seed....it was time for a re-read and didn't disappoint ! Cold War thriller | ||||
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| The author has excellent insight into human nature. Sadly, she does not understand espionage as well and so there are many improbabilities in this tale. Send a non Russian speaker ino Russia is just one. | ||||
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| Despite having to adjust to an age where there was little or no technology, this is a good read. Well worth another go. | ||||
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| It would be helpful to know exactly what "good", "excellent" etc condition really means. I bought a book described as excellent for $19. For me that would mean it had only been read a few times. It was clean however. This was dark brown with age, the spine was well bent and I would never have bought it if I had seen it in a book shop. It has been out of print quite a while and I got it to replace a favourite book belonging to my mother-in-law. I had recycled her copy as it was well thumbed and I had assumed she was finished with it. Her copy was better than this replacement! | ||||
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| I have enjoyed the variety of this author and this book continued the enjoyable trend. | ||||
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| Great read. I'm excited that this is only book 1. Davina Graham is a great character and I plan on reading them all. | ||||
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| Excellent spy thriller | ||||
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| A rely good read | ||||
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| A very enjoyable book, I read it first several years ago and it is still very good | ||||
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| This book is described as a "thriller" but it's more a well-written psychological novel containing vivid characterizations and acute perception of human foibles. I had never heard of this writer but will read more of her works. She deserves a wide audience. This book reminds me of those of such noted writers as Irwin Shaw and John O'Hara. | ||||
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| This spy thriller from the Thatcher era toward the end of the Cold War features Davina Fleming, a British employee of the British security service. Davina when we meet her is resolutely single, if not spinsterish, and bitter about the way her much more beautiful sister stole her no-good boyfriend. As the book begins, Davina has been given the job of babysitting a senior KGB defector who is holed up in a safe house. Why she received this plumb assignment is not adequately explained. The defector has the details of a devious Soviet plot to destabilize the Middle East and seize control of its oil supplies. But he won't cooperate until he knows that his wife and daughter, left back in the USSR are safe and can be brought to join him. Meanwhile, there are suspicions of a mole within the ranks of the British. Davina gets him to loosen up by taking him to spend a lovely weekend with her very British family in the countryside, the first of several totally unrealistic plot developments. The book is well-written but lacks the realism and stage craft of John Le Carre or more recently the excellent thrillers by former CIA agent Jason Matthews which are really much more convincing. I never felt this author knew what it was actually like to be in a spy service -- what agents do and how they do it etc. Some of the plot contrivances struck me as frankly absurd. Would the British actually send someone like Davina to Russia to extract Soviet citizens when she has no field experience and speaks no Russian? She convinces her boss to send her on this unlikely mission to prove to the defector how hard they are trying to rescue his daughter. It doesn't seem real at all. Having said that, this is an enjoyable read if you can suppress your skepticism. The politics seem very old-fashioned given the way the world is now but it has some historical vale as a time capsule from the 1980s. As stated, there are other works out there that are superior -- but this also has its strengths and is worth reading for those who enjoy Cold War espionage and intrigue. | ||||
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| Wow! Evelyn Anthony! Who knew? If recall bio correctly she wrote her first novel in 1949; yet the author's style and perceptions seem entirely modern. Her respect for the reader's intelligence in deftly indicating events and turns is highly refreshing. (No beating circumstances to death with maudlin reiteration.) An elegant, suspenseful mystery seasoned deliciously with romantic tension. So glad to have discovered Evelyn Anthony and will happily read more of her work. | ||||
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| No 1 in a series of 4 really good thrillers. I was hooked almost straight away and had to find out what happened next. | ||||
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| I enjoyed this book when it first was published in 1980 and am really enjoying it now again. Although maybe dated by today's standards, it still gives a good insight into the spying 'trade'. The book was in good condition and arrived promptly as always from Awesome Books. I'm going to reread Evelyn Anthony's novels - it's great to be able to get these books so cheaply when they are no longer available in libraries, etc. | ||||
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| One of the DG books and one of my all time favourites. A real page turner. Hard to put down. I also think I might have reviewed this already | ||||
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