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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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| 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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